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How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use?

Added by Jenny Jing over 10 years ago

We just installed the 2.5 release and are testing RedMine as a ticketing system and need to import data into it. I found several importer plugins, tested two of them but they don't work.

Could someone here recommend an importer for the new release which doesn't need a lot of config work?

Thanks.

Jenny


Replies (9)

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Anonymous over 10 years ago

Jenny,

for getting help on this you should specify what exactly you want to import:
  • migrate from a previous system like mantis?
  • do bulk import from Excel/csv?
  • import real time via mail?
  • import project plan from MS-project?
  • other?

Cheers

Alex

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Jenny Jing over 10 years ago

Hi, Alex:

Thank you very much for your quick reply. We want to do bulk import from csv files.

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Martin Denizet (redmine.org team member) over 10 years ago

Hi Jenny,
It seems several plugins to that. You can have a look to this one which seems to be actively maintained. The doc is here
I didn't test it, I cannot tell you if it's any good.
Cheers,

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Jenny Jing over 10 years ago

Hi, Martin:

Thank you for your reply. I tested it and I got an error message "Page not found" for that plugin page. I will try to find another plugin.

Jenny

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Carlos C.C. over 10 years ago

Hi Martin,

Did your sort the problem out? Or Did you find another plugin to this task?

I use Redmine 2.5 and I intalled the below plugin to import from csv files:

http://www.redmine.org/plugins/csv_import_issues.

But my problem is that all fields but tracker, status, priority and Subject are blank after importing my csv file.

Regards,
Carlos.

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Carlos C.C. over 10 years ago

Upss, sorry. I meant Jenny. Anyway if you, Martin, have more information it would be great as well.

Thanks,
Carlos.

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Jenny Jing over 10 years ago

Hi, Carlos:

I tried this plug in:

https://github.com/aspiresoftware/redmine-import-tasks

But similar problem like yours, I can only load the Subject and Task Description in our RedMine, other fields will go to the default values, such as Tracker, location, etc.
So what I did was:
Sort our input based on Tracker, Location, load them in different input files which are splited by Tracker and Location.
Change the default every time I load a type of Tracker or Location, and put all of the rest data in Task Description field, such as: Old system Id, Submitted by, start date, etc.

It's not a good solution, but we just need to keep the old data somewhere in RedMine and they are searchable. We will start using it and the new data should be in the right fields.

Any better solution?

Thanks.

Jenny

RE: How to import data into Redmine? Which plugin should I use? - Added by Fabian Schmidt about 10 years ago

The Redmine plugin at https://github.com/zh/redmine_importer is working for the current Redmine version 2.6.0. It has its limitations (date format import is a bit buggy) but does its job nicely otherwise. Hope this helps someone else looking for a fairly current implementation of this feature.

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed this plugin was already posted above.

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