Although not common, there may be an occasion where you need to copy issues from one project to another. The Copy issues from another project option allows you to create copies of issues that are then transformed to fit the setup of a target project. You can then delete the original issues from the source project if the goal is to move the issues. 


Prerequisites

  • You must have Write and Change rights to the source project.
  • The target project, to which you are copying issues to, is already created.


  1. Open the target project, and load the Projects menu.
  2. Select Project actions.
  3. Click Copy issues from another project. The Copy issues from project dialog will display.
  4. Use the browse buttons to select the following:
    • In Select project, select the source project and click OK.
    • In Select issue type, select the type of issues to be copied, and click OK. 
      If there are attributes in the issue type to be copied, a list of them will appear.
    • In Select target issue type, select the issue type to be assigned in the target project, and click OK.
    • In Select status, select the status of the issues to be copied, and click OK.When a selection is made, a list of the issues with the selected status will display at the bottom of the dialog.
  5. In Select target status, select the status for the issues in the target project, and click OK.
  6. In Status after copy, select the status in the source project to set for the issues that are copied, and click OK. Note that since you are likely moving the issues, you would typically set the status to a Closed type of status.
  7. In the Target attributes section, you can select the attribute types to be used for the new issues for each of the original issue attributes listed.


Once all of the desired selections have been made, the Copy issues button will become available. Click the button to complete the copy. Verify the results in an issue view in the target project.


To exit without any copying, click Cancel, the window Close button (), or the Esc key.