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Appfire's Configuration Manager for Jira is a powerful tool to seamlessly export and import Jira configurations between server instances. As of release 2.8.0 JWT for Jira Server and Data Center integrates with Configuration Manager and all workflow elements (conditions, validators and post functions and parser expressions) and custom fields provided by JWT are officially supported with minimal limitations. |
Prerequisites
- JWT for Jira Server and Data Center (2.8.0 and above) must be installed on both the source and target instance
- Configuration Manager for Jira must be installed on both the source and target instance
Limitations
JWT uses virtual fields and field codes to represent Jira data. All field codes will be correctly updated to their equivalent value when exporting a configuration to the target instance.
There is one place though, where users might not use a field codes but a static custom field reference - in a JQL query, or more precisely, in the issuesFromJQL() parser function.
issuesFromJQL
The issuesFromJQL parser function, when used in the advanced parsing mode can not automatically transform the custom field ids/names used in the query.
Example
Custom field IDs:
| Source instance | Destination instance | Comment |
|---|---|---|
customfield_10301 | customfield_10481 | If the source and the target instance do not contain the exact same custom field configuration (e.g. a custom field is created during the import process), it is very likely that the IDs of those field do not match in the source and target instance. |
issuesFromJQL("cf[10301] ~ \"" + %{10301} + "\" AND \"Appfire single text\" ~ \"" + %{10301} + "\"") |
will be changed to
issuesFromJQL("cf[10301] ~ \"" + %{10481} + "\" AND \"Appfire single text\" ~ \"" + %{10481} + "\"") |
You can see that the field codes were replaced but the custom field ids/names have to be updated manually as part of a post-migration process.
We are constantly in touch with Appfire to hopefully overcome the limitations in the foreseeable future. |
Modules
If you have not installed Configuration Manager for Jira, you will notice some disabled JWT modules by default.
This is the standard behavior and you do not have to worry about it.
