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I originally posted this in the forums, but I will post it here as well. Seems to make more sense keeping it with the feature request. I would like the same functionality. If someone at Redmine could help me get started with data structure, I would be interested in contributing some effort for this. I am a newbie to Redmine, but I really like the product so far and would be willing to help.

Any interest in my helping with this? At this time, my approach was to use a csv to Trac python script. Then use the Trac import program within Redmine to get the data the rest of the way into Redmine. I would much prefer to have a direct flight rather than a layover in Trac. I have been really happy with Redmine so far, and would be happy to give back by assisting with this in any way I can.

Personally I'd love to see a direct import option and for you to work on it. I could test it for you and maybe create an Excel template for people to match for importing. But being on the PM side of things, I'm not a coder. Wish I could contribute more directly though.

This feature would be so useful!

We often start a project with a hundred tasks and it's much easier to create them in a spreadsheet than in Redmine.

Is anyone working on it?

Push up !

+1

+1

John Z wrote:

This would also allow us a work-around for the inability to "Copy" projects as templates for re-use.

Project copy (with issues) is now available.

Without this feature implemented we’re importing hundreds of issues from Excel to Redmine by hand.

+100

Having this feature really expands the capability of Redmine. I would be able to import whatever I wanted into the issue database. Unfortunately, the importer plugin doesn't work with the latest version of Redmine.

What happens to the importer plugin with the latest version of Redmine? I haven't seen any issues raised against it, so I'm not sure what other issues there are other than the ones that make it marked 'unsupported' at the moment.

Was using the wrong version of the importer. Switched to yours and it worked. Thanks!

Hey Robert Chady,

I used your importer with redmine 0.9.4. I keeps getting this error:

"Internal error

An error occurred on the page you were trying to access.
If you continue to experience problems please contact your redMine administrator for assistance."

Thinking about utf-8 encoding, I have used tools to convert csv file to utf-8, but same error. I know this is not listed as compatible with redmine 0.9.x, but just ask if you have any fixes.

Please help. Thanks a lot.
Seri

try this one, dude. It is called redmine_loader http://github.com/simonstearn/redmine_loader, Supports XML files output by MS Project etc and does a simple load into a default tracker for the selected project. Work with 0.9.3

great, thanks for your quick reply, ha thach. i'll try it.

btw, any plugins for exporting to ms project file ?

Seri

Hey ha thach,

I tried that plugin. I faced error with priority is blank in my file, so not yet successful (MS Project uses priority as number, while I use my own priority values as High/Normal/Low). But I think it's not exactly what I want, cause I need to import issues and related custom fields, not MS project fields. And currently, I have those issues in Excel file.

Anyways, thanks for your info. I might need that when I start to import tasks.

Any other options for me ?

Seri

Great! This is long awaited feature.

Jean, could you please provide an estimated date to release version 3.2.0 with this feature. I am sure many many people will thank you. So big thanks :)

I think that 3.2.0 will be released by the end of the next week.

Oh yes!

For anybody searching for this feature:

Per default, only admin role users see the import link. You can activate this for more roles under:
https://your-redmine-url.xyz/roles/permissions

Then you will find the Link in the ticket category/tab (/issues/) in the menu list as the last menu point or via the adress in the url:
https://your-redmine-url.xyz/issues/imports/new

Hope this helps one or two.. ;)

M P wrote:

For anybody searching for this feature:

Per default, only admin role users see the import link. You can activate this for more roles under:
https://your-redmine-url.xyz/roles/permissions

Then you will find the Link in the ticket category/tab (/issues/) in the menu list as the last menu point or via the adress in the url:
https://your-redmine-url.xyz/issues/imports/new

Hope this helps one or two.. ;)

Is it possible you can post a picture of where this is? I can see the option under permissions and have enabled it but cannot for the life of me find an import button...

@FrankZebre: In version 3.2.0 go to a Project, go to Issues and then it is in the sidebar on the right side.

There are the links

View all issues
Summary
Calendar
Gantt
Import


@RobertSchneider: Hmmm I guess I must have a plugin installed that is getting rid of it. Even when I try to browse to redmine/projects/tickets/issues/imports (or with /new) as suggested by Виталий Виталий above I get a Page Not Found.

Frank Zebre wrote:

@RobertSchneider: Hmmm I guess I must have a plugin installed that is getting rid of it. Even when I try to browse to redmine/projects/tickets/issues/imports (or with /new) as suggested by Виталий Виталий above I get a Page Not Found.

Oops I made a mistake! I had to browse to redmine/issues/imports/new (leaving out the projects/tickets) portion. The button is still missing from the sidebar but my guess is the Agile plugin I have installed for evaluation has removed that section of the side bar.

@FrankZebre: Note sure - if you have Agile plugin of RedmineCRM the link is also there. Have a look into the demo: http://demo.redminecrm.com/projects/agile/issues

Frank Zebre wrote:

Frank Zebre wrote:

@RobertSchneider: Hmmm I guess I must have a plugin installed that is getting rid of it. Even when I try to browse to redmine/projects/tickets/issues/imports (or with /new) as suggested by Виталий Виталий above I get a Page Not Found.

Oops I made a mistake! I had to browse to redmine/issues/imports/new (leaving out the projects/tickets) portion. The button is still missing from the sidebar but my guess is the Agile plugin I have installed for evaluation has removed that section of the side bar.

I found what plugin remove the import link.

I my case it is redmine_sidebar_toc_pt.

I think in your case maybe something similar overwrites your issue sidebar. You can check the file app/views/issues/_sidebar.html.erb to find which call_hook is there.

Is there any kind of documentation about the import process included in 3.2? I've been searching in the wiki and.. I dindn't find anything

Alfredo Bonilla wrote:

Is there any kind of documentation about the import process included in 3.2? I've been searching in the wiki and.. I dindn't find anything

Second this request. This would be a tremendous help, but there is no documentation on scheme, headers, etc.

I just added a minimal HowTo. Feel free to extend and/or fix: HowTo_import_issues

Moritz Who Cares wrote:

I just added a minimal HowTo. Feel free to extend and/or fix: HowTo_import_issues

Thanks you all for working on this feature, I have extened a little the wiki HowTo_import_issues after done some tests.

Moritz Who Cares and Pablo Estiga, thank you for writing the detailed document!
HowTo_import_issues

Hello,

Just a quick question, how do we use files option with import functionality
I'm able to import issues in bulk but many of the issues have some attachments too that needs to be included.
Please help!