Best way to migrate issues from Jira server to Jira cloud without losing WF changes?

[Bart Scholtens]

We are planning to migrate our Jira server environment (our current production system)  to Jira cloud (new). We have migrated the whole environment already several months ago (via backup server - restore on cloud) but we have made several changes in workflows and postfunctions (regarding not existing plugins) afterwards (in the cloud).

Now we want to refresh (sync) al issues from server to cloud without loosing the changes in workflows. We have several options:
- csv export import of issues (but then we will  lose history)
- using a sync issue plugin like Exalate (we try to get this working, mapping the several fields will cost a lot of time)
- using backup and recovery to only recover the issues on the Cloud site (but I don't know if that is possible).

Does anyone have experience and/or knowledge regarding migrating issues from an old (server) to a new environment (cloud) without losing changes in workflows in the new environment?

Regards

Bart Scholtens

[Geert Graat · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have a look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Links#WorkingwithLinks-Linktospecifictypesofcontent. As you can see with this link, you should also include the page name (so full URL#pagename-anchorname). This only works as you add it as a Web link, if you try to add a link to a Confluence page in JIRA the #anchor part is stripped by JIRA.

Regards,

Geert

[Evelin]

Hi Geert, Thanks a lot. I tried it, and it works :-)