Cannot create a new task

[Anina Engelbrecht]

I am unable to create a new task in my jira project. After completing all the details required in the create task field, clicking on "create" does nothing

[Boris Georgiev [Appfire] · Accepted solution]

You can try to create a clone of the existing project into a new one and then remove everything that is not needed from both projects (the 2013 and 2014).

Create an xml backup of JIRA and then replace the project key (i.e. PR) with a new one (PRI). The patterns you need to search are (not sure these are all though)

• key="PR
• projectKey="PR"
• key="PR"
• originalkey="PR"

After replacing these in the entities.xml try do Project Import from backup. This will create a new project with key "PRI" which should be the same as the "PR" project. Then remove all that is not needed.

NOTE: This is not tested and is a solution that "might" work, so I'm not sure if JIRA Agile will work correctly after that with the new project and if actually the JIRA Agile data will be properly cloned, so you have to have a backup of your system in case something goes wrong or test this on a snadbox/test/staging JIRA instance.

Some plugins like CLI or Script Runner provide clone functionality and you may also try to do the clone using them.

[Lisa Reilly]

Hey Boris - looks like that Script Runner plugin will work for me. Thanks for your answer.

[Lisa Reilly]

Hey Boris

Turns out this doesn't work because worklogs aren't copied. Any other ideas??

[Lisa Reilly]

Yes, it doesn't clone the worklogs for the tasks?

[Boris Georgiev [Appfire]]

Do you mean Script Runner ?

[Boris Georgiev [Appfire]]

And a possible way to avoid editing the backup xml manually will be to restore the JIRA backup onto another JIRA instance, change the project key and then create a backup again which to use for import into the original JIRA, but into a different project

[Boris Georgiev [Appfire]]

I suspected that it will not copy worklogs and that's why I've suggested using project backup/restore approach.