Importing and exporting groups

This article is about the group editor.

You can export and then import all project group data in the YAML format.

All Project Groups app data is backed up during a standard Jira database backup. So if you’re moving data to another Jira instance, for example, you don’t need to do a YAML export.

To export data, click the dots next to the Add Group button and select Export to YAML. After that, a yaml format file will be downloaded, containing data on the structure of groups and linking projects to groups.

To import data, click the dots next to the Add Group button and select Import from YAML. During import, the current group structure will be replaced with the structure from the YAML file.

YAML

Of course, since YAML is just text, you can create your own file from scratch. Sometimes this is the fastest way to create a group structure and link projects. YAML app format is quite simple. Here’s an example:

YAML
projectGroups:
- name: Group 1
  projects: [PROJECTKEY1, PROJECTKEY2, PROJECTKEY3]
  subgroups: []
- name: Group 2
  projects: [PROJECTKEY4]
  subgroups:
  - name: Subgroup 1
    projects: [PROJECTKEY5, PROJECTKEY6, PROJECTKEY7, PROJECTKEY8]
    subgroups: []
  - name: Subgroup 2
    projects: [PROJECTKEY9, PROJECTKEY10]
    subgroups: []
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