Change Issue keys

[Pierre Cattin]

Hi, I have imported bugs from bugzilla into a new jira project. Now I would like to change the issue keys to make them the same as the bugs ids in bugzilla. Here's what I did on a test instance:

1. Stop Jira
2. Update the column ISSUENUM in the table JIRAISSUE
3. Update the column PCOUNTER in the table PROJECT
4. Start and reindex Jira

It seems to work perfectly, but before I do that in my production instance, I would like to be sure that it won't have side effects. Did anybody already try to update the column ISSUENUM?

I am Using Jira 6.1 with Oracle.

[Pierre Cattin · Accepted solution]

The only problem we got was the link between issues and attachments. The attachment location depends on the issue key. Therefore if you manually change issue keys, the attachments are not reachable from an issue. To fix this we had to write a batch file to reorganise the structure of our attachment directory.

[Peter Van de Voorde]

I would say :

• edit an issue
• create a subtask for one of the new issues
• transition an issue
• link to an issue
• search for those issues

Best regards,

Peter

[Pierre Cattin]

Thanks, yes I did and it works. Do you have an idea of other actions I could do to check if everything is in order?

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Hi Pierre,

Did you check if you could add new issues to your project without getting constraint errors?

I personally have never tried to update those columns.

Best regards,

Peter