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Migrating to OpenProject

Added by Gregor Buergisser almost 7 years ago

I'm planning to migrate from another bug tracking tool (cvstrac) to OpenProject. Currently I'm developing a migration tool using the OpenProject v3 API.

Of course I want the ticket/workpackage numbers from the old system to remain the same in OpenProject (other resources in the enterprise are referring to these numbers).

How can I accomplish this? Any general ideas or thoughts about the migration process?

Thanks for your advice!


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RE: Migrating to OpenProject - Added by Muhammad Rahman over 6 years ago

Hello,

What have you done for this process?

RE: Migrating to OpenProject - Added by Gregor Buergisser over 6 years ago

I ended up with the following process:

  • First generate as many dummy workpackages via the API as there are tickets in the old bug tracking tool.
  • Updating the dummy workpackages via the API with the data from the old bug tracking tool. E.g. setting the data from old ticket XY in the workpackage XY.
  • During the update of the workpackages I also generate SQL statements which can be run directly on the OpenProject mysql database to set the author and the creation date of the workpackages. Thus I don't loose the original history.

Hope this helps.

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