The Problem
One of the problems we encounter with migrating large Jira instances is that when it comes to JCMA, you either have to add all of the Advanced Roadmaps plans or none of them. There’s no facility for selectively adding Roadmaps plans.
One such migration involved moving a subset or portion of the instance data, rather than the whole thing. Though the instance had 1400+ Roadmaps plans, we only needed to migrate about 100 of them.
The solution we came up with was:
- Take a backup of the current production instance
- Delete all of the Advanced Roadmaps plans that didn’t need to be migrated
- Perform the migration
- Restore the production instance from the backup
Naturally, none of us fancied deleting 1300 Roadmaps plans by hand, especially if we had to do it more than once during the course of testing. So we scripted it.
The Solution
The actual deleting of an Advanced Roadmaps plan is pretty simple. To delete a plan, just send a DELETE request to the plan’s API endpoint, /rest/jpo/1.0/plans/<planID> . So long as you have a list of plan names or IDs that you want to keep, you can tell the script to delete any plans