Fully-Automated Migration from Jira Data Center to Cloud
Using the latest version of “Traffic Lights for Jira” in Atlassian Cloud, as well as in Jira Data Center, enables an automated migration via Atlassian’s Jira Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA): please choose “Needed in cloud” for “Jira Traffic-Light CustomField” within JCMA’s section “Assess your apps”.
Your traffic light custom fields of Jira Data Center will be created in the Jira Cloud accordingly. The options of these Jira Data Center custom fields will be migrated and transformed to match the closest available colored shape and its optional label. The issues in your projects, referenced in your migration path, that utilize these custom fields will be automatically updated in your Jira Cloud to represent similar values as their counterparts in Jira Data Center.
In Jira Cloud, your Data Center custom fields will be created using the app’s new custom field type “Traffic Lights for Jira”. As an administrator, switch into Jira system → work items → fields: there, you can easily find them by searching for fields containing “Traffic” as shown below:
Expand the “Action”-Menu to configure such a custom field:
Now, you can edit these custom field contexts differently per project(s) and issue type(s): this reduces the number of necessary custom fields in various contexts and helps to get a cleaner field setting as an administrator.
If you do not configure any options, then the app’s general default configuration is used based on the classic traffic lights: "🔴⚪⚪", "🔴🟡⚪", "⚪🟡⚪", "⚪⚪🟢".
To configure the default value of such a custom field’s context, please click on “Edit Default Value“ and enter a valid JSON object, like: the shape and label must match one of your configured options.
{
"shape":"⭐⭐⭐",
"label":"very useful"
}