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Introduction

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To unlock import features, install the BigTemplate App from the Atlassian Marketplace.

You can easily import your task templates from tools like MS Project, MS Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument files.

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Box Admins and Jira Admins can import tasks from a file. When the “Permissions for everyone” option is enabled, every logged-in user can import tasks from a file.

To import tasks from a file, click the "+" button and select the following option (keep in mind that import functionality is also available in the Scope module):

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The table below presents the supported fields for particular files. 

Supported field

Files - .xls, .xlsx, .csv, .ods (column name)

Files - .mpp, .mpx (column name)

Summary

("Summary")

("Task Name")

Start Date

("Start Date")

("Start")

End Date

("End Date")

("Finish")

Issue type

("Issue Type")

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Assignee

("Assignee")

("Resource Name")

Original Estimate

("Original Estimate")

("Work")

Milestone

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("Milestone")

Baseline Start Date

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("Baseline Start")

Baseline End Date

-

("Baseline Finish")

Progress

-

("% Complete")

Select a Jira project

To carry out the import successfully, you need to define a Jira project where the imported issues should be created. Tasks are visualized in the App and they have to exist somewhere in Jira itself. 

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