Goal: Provide an utility to Migrate and/or Merge Herzum Approval data from one instance to another.
Description: A new administration screen allows the Jira administrator to perform the following operations:
Export Approval Data in xml format on the Source Jira Instance
The Dependencies Analyzer Tab allows to identify the Jira entities (Projects, Issue Types, workflow statuses, transitions, Users, Groups, Project roles etc) used or referenced by the Approval Configurations in the local instance.
This information allow the Administrator to check if the target Jira instance have the needed entities allowing to achieve a successful import.
The form allows to
On clicking Launch, the app identifies, for each Approval table that stores the Configurations applied on the source instance, the Jira entities that are referenced by this table.
It is strongly recommended to run the Dependency Analyzer after that you have performed an Approval Recovery in order to ensure that data on the Source instance are consistent.
The app will delete any dirty data (tuples having Export status = Draft) before to start the Dependencies Analysis.
After that the dependency analysis complete, you will be able to display the Jira entities referenced by any Approval table and Download the Dependencies Report.
The Download Dependencies Report button allows to download a file that lists for each entity the dependency analysis result.
The Report will include any message displayed on the form.
By following a dependency analysis there are three type of messages that can be displayed:
Notice that on performing the Approval Data import, the app will search referenced entities by usernames (for user key data) and by Name (for other entities, e.g. Project Name, custom field Name, etc.).
