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Bulk Issue Creation

Added by Dara Kong about 16 years ago

Hi, I am currently evaluating Redmine as a replacement for Trac (currently used internally on multiple projects).

The most requested feature from my users is the ability to streamline the issue creation process. We mainly use issues/tickets as a task tracking tool so usually the managers will create a few dozen tasks at the beginning of each milestone.

Is there a way to easily add multiple issues at once rather than adding them individually?

I think I could use the Redmine receive email feature and hook up a simple script to parse a spreadsheet and send an email for each issue. The manager would simply fill in a spreadsheet with the required fields (summary, description, due date, asignee) and then run the script.

Does anyone have other solutions?

Thanks.
Dara.


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RE: Bulk Issue Creation - Added by Eric Davis about 16 years ago

Dara Kong wrote:

I think I could use the Redmine receive email feature and hook up a simple script to parse a spreadsheet and send an email for each issue. The manager would simply fill in a spreadsheet with the required fields (summary, description, due date, asignee) and then run the script.

That would actually be a really easy way to bulk import.

Does anyone have other solutions?

Another solution similar to your spreadsheet one is to create a file with the issues you need and use the Rails console to add them (script/runner or script/console). It would require some custom Ruby code but wouldn't be difficult at all.

Eric

RE: Bulk Issue Creation - Added by Joe Chin about 16 years ago

I have a CSV of issues that were exported from another application in Excel. I'm knew to Rails and haven't found a lot of tutorials/examples on importing issues. Where or how do I create this custom code?

Thanks

RE: Bulk Issue Creation - Added by Uwe Koloska almost 16 years ago

I would also like to see this feature.

Just now I'm changing some projects from cvstrac and trac and as far as I understand, the trac importer is only able to fill an empty redmine with the data from one project -- so I cannot import more than one project into one instance of redmine. What I need is the import of only a subset of information from trac or cvstrac (for now I only need the tickets). My plan is to extract this information into some sort of CSV, make some changes (map user names, etc.) and then import them into redmine.

How can this be achieved? If there is no rake task for bulk import of tickets, where can I search for examples or documentation to use the Rails console for this task?

Thank you!

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