How do you copy components from one project to another?

[Deleted user]

We want to set up several projects with the same components, how can we do this?

[Kalyan Sattaluri · Accepted solution]

Hello @[deleted] 

If ask is using automation, you could, using Send Web request and Advanced Branching to copy these over.

1. Trigger = Scheduled
2. Action - Send Web request and get components from source project. 
3. Create a variable and store destination project KEY
4. Advanced Branch over {{webResponse.body}}
5. Action-Send Web request and create components to destination project. 

Repeat above steps for each project by change #3's variable for destination project. 

Havent tried doing this but seems logical, do try and let us know if issues or are stuck.

[Guy Anela]

Created an Automation Rule for this today and it worked like a charm! :) Thanks, @Kalyan Sattaluri!

 Here's a screenshot of the Rule...

Here's the configuration for the For each; Advanced branching step...

Anyhow, hope someone else finds this helpful. Cheers!

Thanks again, Kalyan!

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

Awesome and thanks for sharing the rule. do consider accepting answer so that your solution surfaces in google searches and others can benefit in the future. Thanks!

[Chanon Borgström]

Hi @Kalyan Sattaluri , @Guy Anela ,

I'm trying to set up the automation and I get stuck at the get call. Have you done any special settings in the get call? It seems like the automation can't fetch anything through the API? Have experienced anything similar before?

Kind regards,

Chanon

[Guy Anela]

Hi @Chanon Borgström - Are you getting any errors in the Audit Log? You'll want to make sure you have the right API endpoint URL and you have an Authorization Header defined with the proper encoded Value. Here's an example screenshot of ours...

The string that needs to be Base64 encoded should be the users email address and API Token separated by a colon (e.g. UserEmail:UserApiToken). For example... 

youruser@someemail.com:aB36g87hsdHSGd&8jhdsjnn

Here's a guide on how to encode the value using PowerShell.

Once you have the encoded value, you'll want to add it to the Headers "Value" field prefixed with the term "Basic " (as depicted in the screenshot above). Notice there's a space between "Basic" and the encoded value (e.g. Basic a2XjRXTsTXNxaWP).

I hope this helps. Cheers!

[Chanon Borgström]

Hi @Guy Anela ,

Thanks for the clarification. I missed encoding the string with the Base64 so now it works. Thank you for this!

Wishing you a great day!

Best regards,

Chanon

[emre]

     Hi @[deleted] 

     We have an app that provides this feature you want. 

     In the application, all components are automatically added to the Subcomponents page as content. To move these components to another project, you can press the export button and download the json file to your computer. The picture below is an image of the subcomponents page in the Configuration Management Toolkit app in one of my projects and you can do the export as in the photo.

     Then, to open a new project and import that json file, you need to click on the subcomponents page in the new project and press the import button. Then you should upload the exported file there. Then you will see this image when you load it. 

    Then when you press the import button, all your components will be added to the existing project and saved in Jira. 

     For more details about app: https://thestarware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CBSVC/pages/2287698054/Importing+Exporting+Subcomponents 

     Application (add-on) link: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211825/software-configuration-management-toolkit?hosting=cloud&tab=overview 

     Disclaimer: I work for the vendor who built this app.

[Deniz Oğuz - The Starware]

Hi,

You can use our Jira CLI too, AtlasCLI for Jira to copy all project components from one project to another. You can use the tool for synchronization too, because it will just skip over the existing components and continue to create missing ones.

jira project-component get-all --project=OLD_PROJECT_KEY | awk 'NR>2 {print $2}' | xargs -I {} jira project-component create --name="{}" --pKey=NEW_PROJECT_KEY

Just replace OLD_PROJECT_KEY and NEW_PROJECT_KEY with actual names of your projects. If you want, you can also override information for each component by passing other flags to "jira project-component create" command. Of course, you can also manipulate the component name and a project specific prefix/suffix if you want. To find out all the accepted parameters you can use the following command.

jira project-component create --help

Disclaimer: I work for the vendor who built this app.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @[deleted] 

There's a few options here...

• Use Automation to copy them across (using one cloned Issue). @Kalyan Sattaluri has posted one option, but there's another one in this article here you could try.
• Import them in using the "External System Import" - when you import Components, they get created if they do not exist. See how to do this on this article.
• Use an App from the Marketplace - depending on whether this is a one-off, or a regular thing you need to do. Check out Apps such as...
  • Version & Component Sync for Jira 
  • Octo - Component version, Subcomponents and Sync for Jira 
  • Project Templates for Jira 
  • ScriptRunner for Jira (using the script @Victor Law mentioned - see here)
  • ...or another App from the Marketplace

Ste

[Victor Law]

Hi @[deleted]

Jira does not support component clones natively across multiple projects.

However, it is possible to bulk-create the same set of Components via the ScriptRunner app:

https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/bulk-create-components-in-a-project