Can issue keys in a project be resequenced

[Ward Schwillens, Schwillie]

Can issue keys in a project be resequenced so that the lowest key starts with -1 again, and then sequentially the rest of the keys are renumbered too? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Yes, but you're going to be very very bored for a very long time while doing it.

• Move all the issues into another project with bulk-edit.
• Create a new project.
• One by one, move each issue from the temporary holding project into the new one, in the order you want.

I think it might be a better question to ask why you want to do this?  What would you gain from re-sequencing a pile of unique ids (other than satisfying some people's OCD-like tendencies)

[Ward Schwillens, Schwillie]

Hi Nic, indeed you are right about the OCD-like tendencies! 😁

Thank you for the suggested work around. 

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @Ward Schwillens, Schwillie 

Unfortunately not. 

In case you need to skip the initial numbers in the sequence, that is possible though - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-set-the-starting-issue-number-for-a-project-318669643.html

[Ward Schwillens, Schwillie]

Hi Fazila, thank you for your insights! 

[Nikola Perisic]

Hi @Ward Schwillens, Schwillie ,

Issue keys in Jira cannot be changed. Since this needs to be in the ascending order, you should be using a JQL query for this instead.

BR,

Nikola

[Ward Schwillens, Schwillie]

Thank you for your insight Nikola!