New import issues functionality

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#219 - New import issues functionality

shridhar-tl commented on Jan 08, 2023

This current import issues functionality has multiple issues and it is tedious to identify and fix the issues due to some technical challenges. Hence I have started to rewrite the entire functionality from scratch.

Additionally this new import issue functionality will have more features than the existing one and as time progress it would become stable enough to be used by all the users. the Initial version of this functionailty would be available in JiraAssistant v2.38.

Following features were included in latest version of Jira Assistant:

Support for inline editing of dataonce the csv is uploaded
Support to import mix of fields which is supported only while issue creation and fields which are allowed only to be updated after issues is created.
Provides suggestion for fields which has allowed set of values
Supports bulk deleting or bullk cloning of issues.
Improved validations for fields

Features currently not yet implemented, but are planned to be implemented in upcomming few weeks:

Supports pulling the issue using JQL from Jira and bulk editing it inline from grid structure.
Supports adding new field for editing after the csv is imported. Once new field is added to screen, existing data of that field would be pulled from Jira after which user can edit the value of that field and do bulk update of all the issues.

Features that are not supported due to restrictions in Jira. But would be supported in future if an alternate way is found. Users can suggest any alternate approach to implement these features:

Does not support moving issues to different project
Does not support moving the issue to different parent

Latest updates

27-Nov-2023 - Change in permissions for JA

In upcoming version (v2.58) of JA, by default, permission to access Cloud instance of Jira would be added. This would let the users to integrate with Cloud instance of Jira without prompting for permission at the time of integration. Hence for Chrome users, once the extension gets updated, it would get disabled due to change in permission. You can enable it again from Extensions page. However, for Firefox and Edge, extension already have access to all the sites (though it doesn't really need) which would be narrowed down only to atlassian.net which would be a security improvement.

03-Jan-2023 - Auto update would take time

Jira Assistant is now updated in phased basis to avoid any breaking changes impacting all users. So it may take long time before your extension gets updated. If you want to manually update it immediately, just navigate to "chrome://extensions", turn on "Developer mode" from top right corner and click Update button. Then you can turn off dev mode.

20-Dec-2022 - Available as App for Jira Cloud

Jira Assistant can now be installed within your Jira Cloud as an App. Once installed, this would be available for all your Jira users. Visit https://www.jiraassistant.com to know more.

26-Jul-2022 - Introducing JA Web

You can visit https://app.jiraassistant.com to use or test upcoming features of Jira Assistant. Contribute in testing JA by switching to Web Version. All the fixes and new feature updates would be immediately available in Web version of JA. Later, stable updates would be pushed to Extensions.