A note about SIL™ aliases

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Last updated: Oct 01, 2018 by Elena Kolesnik
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If you are using our Power Scripts™ for Jira app (the SIL™ provider) you may have noticed that there is sil.aliases file in the cPrime folder of your Jira Home folder. This file maps the custom fields into a more easy readable names that can be used in the SIL™ scripts. KIWI™ transfers this file from an instance of Jira to another system.

The export operation encapsulates the entire file form the source server including the comment lines.

A successful import generates this file in the KIWI™ home folder with the name: <exported_workflow_name>_sil_<timestamp>.aliases , where <timestamp> represents the date when the file is generated, in the yyyyMMddHHmm format. For instance, the Workflowfortest_sil_201310071330.aliases file is the sil.aliases file generated when importing the workflow Workflowfortest on 07.10.2013 13:30). This file contains only those custom field aliases that were imported, re-mapped according to your .cfmap file and according to your screen selection. However the generated file <exported_workflow_name_sil>.aliases contains only the delta, for example what was changed by the current import process.

To merge your generated file in the sil.aliases launch the corresponding tool.