The setup wizard guides you through the setup process. In the New API Key section, enable the Generate a new API key with optional description option, and provide a description for the key. Navigate to the Preferences > API Keys page. Log in to Bugzilla with an account that is granted administrative permissions. To set up an import, first, you need to create a personal API key in Bugzilla. Then you can use it as the token for authorization when setting up the import in YouTrack. Here is the list of entities that are imported from Bugzilla and their mapping to YouTrack entities:īefore you add a new import configuration, you need to create a personal API Key that will grant access to the target project in Bugzilla. We recommend using an account with a System Admin role or the Low-level Admin Write permission to run the import. The YouTrack user account you use to run the import should have permissions to create all imported entities. If the Bugzilla database contains references to entities that do not exist in YouTrack yet, they are created. Your user account in Bugzilla has administrative permissions.
Make sure that your Bugzilla installation has JSON Perl module ( JSON:RPC and JSON:XS packages) installed. Specifically, you need to make sure that your network doesn't block connections between your Bugzilla installation and YouTrack. Your YouTrack and Bugzilla installations are accessible to inbound connections. YouTrack supports import from both stable and development branches of Bugzilla.īefore you import projects from Bugzilla to YouTrack, check the following requirements: If your project has a custom set of fields for issues, you can edit the import script in YouTrack directly. It prompts you to enter the connection settings and lets you map projects in YouTrack to projects in Bugzilla. A setup wizard navigates you through the import configuration process.
In essence, an import configuration is a graphic UI representation of an import script. The new option to import data from Bugzilla lets you connect to a Bugzilla service and import projects, issues, issue history, comments, attachments, users, custom fields, tags, links, and work items from Bugzilla to YouTrack.