Export an issue type from one project and import into another

[Santhosh Solipuram]

We have the following requirement. We want to export an issue type from Project A and import it back into project B. We wanted to have the same issue type from project A across couple of projects. Out of the box, I dont see a way to do it. I see there is a plugin "project configurator for Jira". Not sure if the plugin helps with my requirement

Is there a way we can export and import an issue type as per my requirement.

thanks

[Robert Wen_ReleaseTEAM_]

Hello @Santhosh Solipuram ! Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Are the projects on the same Jira Cloud instance?  If they are, issue types used in projects are associated through the Issue Type Scheme.  You need to see if Project A and Project B use the same Issue Type Scheme or that the Issue type you want is in the Issue Type Schemes associated with each Project.

Details are here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/associate-issue-types-with-projects/

[Santhosh Solipuram]

What if the projects dont have the same issue type schema?

Is there any functionality in Jira which allows to import and export issue type shcemas from one project to another?

[Robert Wen_ReleaseTEAM_]

Not for team-managed projects.  It's far easier to have common issue types across projects using schemes on company-managed projects.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Santhosh Solipuram 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Are you working with an issue type in a Company Managed project or a Team Managed project?

What exactly do you expect to be carried over in that export/import process?

[Santhosh Solipuram]

The issue type is in a team managed project. I want to import that particular issue type from a project and import into another project

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Santhosh Solipuram 

Into what type of project to you want to import the issue type?

And exactly what are you hoping to carry across during that import? The fields associated with the issue type? The screen layout? The workflow?

The short answer is I don't believe there is any way to "export" an issue type and its associated configuration from a Team Managed project and import that to another project.

You have to recreate the issue type and associated configurations in the destination project.

The configurations of Team Managed projects are specifically not intended to be shared. The concept behind Team Managed projects is to be able to customize a project completely independently without impact to other projects.

Company Managed projects, on the other hand, leverage configurations that can be shared. You can define Issue Types globally that can be organized into Issue Type Schemes that can then be assigned to projects, for example.