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Create Connection & Contract on both JIRA instances (see Connection & Synchronize 101).
Configuration details
Production | Archive |
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| Access to this JIRA only for administrator, technical user, others that should browse old issues. | |
| Field Mapping should contains all data you need to archive. | Corresponding mapping should be set. |
Create trigger should be an workflow event (GENERIC_EVENT or particular ones set in your transitions to Close, Resolved, Done statuses). Comments should be Synchronize All Attachments should be Synchronize All | No triggers for communication. This instance does not sent data outside. |
| JQL Constraint in contract can be set to query like this: status in (Closed, Resolved, Done) |
Consideration
- Archived issues may not have the same issueKey (depending on sequence).
- Archived issues will not have change history nor workflow transitions executed according to original issues.
- This is good for keeping only fields data for further queries, statistics, etc.
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