Advanced Roadmaps migration now supported in the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant

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Update [Oct 19, 2022]: The Jira Cloud Migration Assistant now supports the migration of Advanced Roadmaps for all customers!

Over the past year, we’ve accelerated our investment in Atlassian’s Cloud Migration Assistants to account for the different types of data that our customers need to move to Cloud.

Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now migrate Advanced Roadmaps plans, projects, users, and groups using the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant.

Over the past 6 months, we have invested heavily in making Advanced Roadmaps migrations faster, more reliable, and scalable for all types of customers. I am pleased to tell that we were able to make significant strides and are now confident in our product to launch the general availability version of Advanced Roadmaps with the latest JCMA release. This public release adds to the momentum we’ve already been building so far this year. Over the last few months, we’ve made similar investments in other areas of Jira migrations and have been able to improve our reliability and scalability across other Jira entities that migrate using the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant.

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How to access the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant:

The tool is already installed in Jira 8.14 and above and can also be downloaded from the Atlassian Marketplace. Learn more about how to use Jira Cloud Migration Assistant.

Please also take the time out to go over this important announcement that might impact you in case you are using an older version of JCMA.

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Advanced Roadmaps migration using the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant has been in beta since February. Since then, we received valuable customer and Solution Partner feedback that has shaped and improved the tool we’re now bringing to market.

Some of the top enhancements we have made are:

1. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-972

2. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-1101

3. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-1005
4. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-1009
5. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-1067

Other various internal enhancements that should make your Advanced Roadmaps migration a smooth experience. General Availability does not mean that it is perfect, or that we are stopping. We will continue to invest in bug fixes and incrementally add new enhancements to improve your overall migration experience.
You can see and review our current customer facing backlog here.

Here’s a list of the Advanced Roadmaps data that is migrated and what isn’t migrated:

What is migrated	What isn't migrated
Plans with issue sources as projects Plans with issue sources as single- or cross-project boards Plans that have issue sources as filters Users and groups Global configuration Custom issue types, custom fields and custom hierarchy mapping Live plans will be migrated as plans with improved interface	Classic plans Plans that have issue sources as private filters Unsaved scenario data Saved views User defined custom fields of type Parent Link Team Target start Target end

How to migrate Advanced Roadmaps data using the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant

The Jira Cloud Migration Assistant enables you to migrate Advanced Roadmap plans, and associated projects, single-project boards, users, and groups.

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Before you begin migrating Advanced Roadmaps

If you have Jira Core in your server instance, make sure you have Jira Work Management added in your destination cloud site. Depending on the number of Jira Core users you've in your server instance, you may need to upgrade to the Jira Work Management Standard plan.

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Once your select your destination cloud site, you must: 

1. Select Advanced Roadmaps plans followed by projects, users and groups, Jira Service Management customer (if you have Jira Service Management), and any apps.

2. With the Advanced Roadmaps Beta release, you’ll need to migrate all Advanced Roadmaps plans except those which have private filters as issue-source.
   
   
   

3. Check for errors

 

 Once you check for errors, review and run your migration.

For more information on how to use the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant to migrate Advanced Roadmaps data, please visit the Atlassian support documentation.

However, if you come across any challenge while using Advanced Roadmaps migrations, please do contact support.

If you have feedback or questions about Advanced Roadmaps migrations, please let us know in the comments below or leave your feedback on this Jira ticket.

[Rob Horan]

Was this info sent via email subscription?  I would have loved getting an email about this news.

[Elizabeth Howden]

Hi @Rob Horan - I'm so happy to hear that you're excited about this news! Thanks for that feedback.

We decided not to send an email about this Public Beta launch, but will be updating customers by email about tooling launches later this year. In the meantime, definitely bookmark the Cloud migrations collection in Community. It's typically where we spread the word about new migration launches!

[Yevgen Lasman]

I only can't understand why custom fields data isn't migrated. Especially if fields are already present and/or part of the migration.

[Priyanshu Bhalotia]

Hey @Yevgen Lasman,
We do migrate custom fields data. The only custom fields we don't migrate are User defined custom fields of type
- Parent Link
- Team
- Target start
- Target end

These cant be migrated due to internal configuration reasons on cloud. Hope this helps.

[Rob Horan]

@Elizabeth Howden I very much am!  It seems like many of the gaps are being closed.  If only there was a way to migrate currently unsupported custom fields...

Actually, what would really help is an error report that would aggregate all errors, list them on a web page, and present them in a more reader-friendly format, separated into errors that lead to partial migration as opposed to immediate failure, along with links to documentation for resolution. 

But I have a long wish list :)

[Sean Ryder]

Is similar functionality available when migrating cloud-to-cloud?

[Priyanshu Bhalotia]

Hi @Sean Ryder , thanks for reaching out to us. While cloud-to-cloud migrations currently do not support Advanced Roadmaps migration, it is there in our roadmap.

Meanwhile, in case you need help in migrating Advanced Roadmaps in cloud-to-cloud scenario, please feel free to reach out to our support team here and they will help you in the best way possible

[Steven Rhodes]

This article should clearly state that this feature is not available in cloud to cloud migrations.

[Taranjeet Singh]

That's great news! Thanks for sharing this, @Priyanshu Bhalotia !