How to migrate to Smart Checklist from My ToDo?

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Our support team recently had a lot of requests and questions regarding migration from My ToDo. The app stopped being available on Atlassian as part of the effort to stand with Ukraine.

Smart Checklist is quite friendly when it comes to migration. We support a nice selection of migration options like migration from CSV, Trello, or Issue Checklist. You can learn more about the migration options from this guide.

Unfortunately we did not have a reliable and hustle-free method to help users migrate from My ToDo. So we had to make it from scratch. If you are a My ToDO user and are looking for alternative options that support a checklist on Data Center instances of Jira - this guide is for you. 

Migrating from My ToDO

The migration from My ToDO relies on exporting your data in a CSV format. Please make sure you’ll be including the following fields for the export to succeed.

Field	Description	Example
Summary	The name of a Jira task	Prepare migration data from My ToDo to Smart Checklist
Issue key	Key of a Jira task	SC-1339
Custom field (To Do List)	JSON Array of My ToDo items	[{'id': 'checklist_item_1',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'done',  'mandatory': ''},  {'id': 'checklist_item_2',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'done',  'mandatory': ''},  {'id': 'checklist_item_3',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'done',  'mandatory': ''},  {'id': 'checklist_item_4',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'todo_undone',  'mandatory': ''},  {'id': 'checklist_item_5',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'done',  'mandatory': ''},  {'id': 'checklist_item_6',  'linkedIssueKey': '',  'type': 'done',  'mandatory': ''}]

Once the CSV document is ready, you’ll need to launch the colab file. This file will prepare the migration file. 

1. Go to the colab file. 
2. Upload your CSV to the colab.

3. There’s a “Run” button next to each of the cells. Click these buttons one by one. 

4. You will see a list of CSV files you have uploaded after running this cell.

5. Paste the filename from the previous list into the field.

6. You’ll see this screen if the operation was successful.

7. You can grab the prepared CSV and import it into Jira. 

Life happens, things change. We made Smart Checklist when our team outgrew Trello and we needed a checklist solution for Jira that fits our processes. That was a while back and, luckily, you don’t need to make apps from scratch anymore - the Atlassian Marketplace probably has everything you need.

Things still change, however. Some apps get removed, some stop being supported, and some grow to be more expensive than you can afford. That's when functionality that supports migration comes in handy.