Jira supports importing data directly from many popular issue-tracking systems and common data formats. All the importers have a wizard-driven interface, guiding you through a series of steps. These steps are mostly identical, but have a few differences. Generally speaking, there are four steps when importing data into Jira, as follows:
- Select your source data. For example, if you are importing from CSV, it will select a CSV file. If you are importing from Bugzilla, it will provide Bugzilla database details.
- Select a destination project where the imported issues will go. This can be an existing project or a new project created on the fly.
- Map fields from the other source to Jira fields.
- Map field values from the other source to Jira field values. This is usually required for select-based fields, such as the priority field, or select list custom fields...