How to export/import issues with a table in the description?

[Fabian Angerer]

Good afternoon,

I am having trouble exporting/importing Jira-issues when they have tables in the description text. The export works fine, only when importing issues with tables in their text, they are displayed afterwards in Jira as follows:

|Group x: |<Group name>||No.|xxx||Numbering and short name:|xxx||Function description:|xxx||

The above example was created as a table in the description text, but after export and re-import with a csv file it is displayed as normal text with | and || instead of the table lines. Is there any particular solution/procedure for this problem?

Thank you in advance!

[Nick Haller]

Hi @Fabian Angerer ,

I know this is a bit late, but hope it can help others in the Community if they stumble across a similar question or issue - especially since I have not had any luck finding related resources for assistance.

Throughout my testing of importing a table, it appears the header column / cells are represented with double pipes (||). The following rows / cells are represented with a single pipe (|).

And each row after the header row needs a newline in the CSV for this to work as expected. For example with a CSV / txt file such as this one:

Summary,Description
Importing Table Example,"||*Column 1*||*Column 2*||*Column 3*||
|Row 1|Cell 2.1|Cell 3.1|
|_Row 2_|+Cell ABC+|-Cell XYZ-|"

It would be imported to look like this:

As you can see, the table is added as expected, and also supports text formatting!

Hope that helps!!!