I realize that the Project Key is being used practically everywhere in JIRA as a form of foreign key (the database is not exactly in normal form, is it?).
But maybe someone has a means of changing a key (e.g. from JIRA2011 to JIRA2012), so that all the Issues and Histories and whatever stay with the project.
Or is this another example of "backup to XML, search and replace in XML, restore from XML"?
We are currently running JIRA 4.4.0.
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Hi All,
Just a quick update, it is now possible to rename the project key via UI in JIRA 6.1
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Editing+a+Project+Key?from=SvEC
Cheers,
It is not currently possible to change the project key through JIRA's interface. The best way to do this is to:
refered: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Changing+the+Project+Key
There is a ticket in JIRA for that: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-2703
However you can create another project and move all the issues to it, than delete the old one.
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Yes and you will find in issue history that previously the issue was in other project with different project key.
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Thanks Thomas and Alex - that is what I was afraid of (detour through XML).
Alex, will creating a new project, moving issues, then deleting the old project leave the histories intact?
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Does moving the issues from one project to another keep their numbers? It's easy to create a redirection on nginx frontend for fixing old links but the real question is the numbers kept? Remember that you can have spaces between ticket numbers due issues that were removed.
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Hi John,
look here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Changing+the+Project+Key
Best regards
Thomas
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