How to preserve comment author details when importing issues via CSV?




Summary

While importing comments through a CSV import, some comments are created with the name of the user who performed CSV import instead of the actual comment author.

Commenter named <accountid> not found. Creating issue with currently logged in user instead


Environment

Jira cloud

Cause

When the user is not added to the site, the below error is prompted after migration and the comments are created with author name of the user currently performing the CSV import.

Solution

To resolve the issue, add the comment authors to the site and assign them the required project permissions: 

Steps to add a user to the Jira site-

Then the issues can be imported following the Import Data via CSV.



Last modified on Dec 25, 2024

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