Import your Jira Server or Cloud data to Plane

With the Jira importer, you can easily import issues, states, labels, priorities and user data from Jira to Plane and continue managing your existing projects.

Import from Jira

Role: Workspace admins

tip

To import issue types from Jira, make sure the Issue types feature is enabled in your Plane project.

To import Jira issues to a Plane project, follow these steps:

1. Click the ∨ icon next to your workspace name on the sidebar and select Workspace Settings.

2. Select Imports on the right pane and click the Import button in the Jira section.

3. In the Jira to Plane Migration Assistant screen, enter your Personal Access Token, User email and the Jira domain to allow Plane access to your Atlassian account.

4. Click the Connect Jira button to link the accounts.

5. Click the Import button.

6. Configure Plane
   Select the Plane project where you want to import your Jira data and and click Next.

7. Configure Jira
   Choose the workspace and project in Jira from where you want to import data.

   Work item types

   If you're on a paid plan (Pro or higher), issue types in Jira will be imported as work item types in Plane. On the free plan, issue types from Jira won't be imported.

8. Import users
   Choose one of the following:

   • Upload CSV
     Click the Upload CSV button to import users to your Plane project. Refer to Export users from a site to download the CSV file from Jira. (recommended)
   • Skip user import
     You can select the Skip Importing User data checkbox and manually add users later.
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     If you skip user import, work items and comments will show the name of the person who performed the migration, and the Assignees field will be empty.

     

9. Map states

   1. Map Jira status to their equivalent Plane states.
   2. Select the Auto create and map the remaining Jira states checkbox to automatically create and map any missing states.

10. Map priorities
    Map the Jira priorities to the corresponding Plane priorities. If there's no match, select None in the Plane priorities list.

11. Summary
    Review the mappings and make any changes if needed. Click Back to adjust, or click Confirm to start the migration.

12. The data migration begins and takes a few minutes to complete depending on the number of issues in your Jira workspace.

13. Once it's done, go to Work items in your Plane project to confirm that the data import is successful.

Imported entities

Here’s a quick look at what gets imported during the migration from Jira to Plane:

Jira	Plane	Notes
Labels	Labels
Status	States
Issue priorities	Priorities
Users	Users
Issues	Work items
Relations	Parent	Includes only parent-child relationships
Issue comments	Work item comments	Includes username and timestamp. If you skip user import during migration, comments will show the name of the user who performed the migration.
Issue attachments	Work item attachments
Reporter	Created by
Created	Created at
Assignee	Assignees	If you skip user import during migration, this will be blank.
Issue types	Labels | Prefix in Issue title
Images in the Issue description	Images in the Work item description
Summary	Work item title
Start date	Start date
Due date	Due date
Linked Issues	Links	Includes backlinks to the original Jira issue.
Sprint	Cycles	Includes the work items, start and end date.
Components	Modules	Includes the work items.

Sync Jira to Plane

After the import, if there are any new or updated issues in Jira, you can easily sync these changes to Plane:

1. Go to Workspace settings.
2. Select Imports on the right pane.
3. Click the Re run button next to the project you want to sync.