Issue Linking JIRA using CSV import

[AKASH BHARDWAJ]

Hi All,

I am performing CSV import to bulk upload issues, I am able to import all fields along with Sub task.

I am now facing huge issues to preserve Issue Linking. I have found articles which speak about Jelly Script and so.

I am not much of scripting expert. 

I could do some workaround, It would be great help if someone can provide more info on this issue.

Many Thanks,
Akash 

[Taha Khanzada]

Hi Akash,

You could use REST API for creating Issue link, you can refer below link for example 

https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-platform/other/guide-jira-remote-issue-links/jira-rest-api-for-remote-issue-links

In past done issue migration through CSV import and for issue linking we used REST API mentioned in above example, you can give it a try.

Taha

[AKASH BHARDWAJ]

@Taha Khanzada : Sorry, if this sounds silly question, not userd REST before. Say my JIRA URL is http://mycompany:8080 and issue where issue links needs to be created key is ABC-123. How do i fire the command over browser?? Many Thanks, Akash

[Taha Khanzada]

TST-1 is source ticket( from which issue links needs to be created) and ABC-123 is destination one Most simple one is CURL command line, here is below example using CURL command. I have used one of the sample in URL {code} curl -D- -u username:password -X PUT --data @rest.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://mycompany:8080/jira/rest/api/latest/issue/TST-1/remotelink {code} Content of file rest.txt file { "globalId": "system=http://mycompany:8080/browse/ABC-123";, "object": { "url":"http://mycompany:8080/browse/ABC-123";, "title":"Crazy customer support issue (RESOLVED)" } } Basically REST is independent of the language you can write script in language you are comfortable in JAVA, jQuery, Python or even VBS ( Excel) etc. For Browser based client you can try "Postman Rest Client" from Chrome webstore Taha

[Ramakrishna Anumalla]

Hi you can create issue linking through csv in below given format

issue Key cloned by	Summary	issue id clones
TEST-166	name of issue	TEST-168
TEST-167	name of issue	TEST-169