Export workflows

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Last updated: Oct 01, 2018 by Elena Kolesnik
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KIWI™ offers you the possibility to move complex workflows from a Jira system to another just with the click of your mouse. 

To complete import, the first step is to export a workflow:

  1. Go to Jira Administration > Add-ons > KIWI™
  2. Go to the Export page

3. Select the workflow you want to export from a combo-box. The page informs, you are about to export a Jira Workflow with all its dependencies (associated statuses, issue types, custom fields and screens).

Default Workflow

The workflow "The default Jira workflow" can not be exported because this is a read only workflow.


You can add to your exported workflow a list of pre-import and post-import sil files that will be executed on the Import Jira instance, before or after the main import is executed. You definitely know about sil script files if you are using our Power Scripts™ for Jira app. SIL™, or Simple Issue Language™ is very easy to learn yet powerful and extensible: it's a Java-like language with no dependence on Jira version, offering power through simplicity and flexibility.

To add a pre-import file:

  • Click the Add Pre-Import File button
  • Pop-up dialog will be opened
  • Choose a sil file from the kiwi home folder("PATH_TO_JIRA_HOME/kepler/kiwi")

  • Click the Add button from the pop-up
  • Script file is above the Add Pre-Import File button 
  • The script will be added to the exported kiwi™ file when clicking the Export button

  • If there there is no sil script file in the Kiwi™ home folder(PATH_TO_JIRA_HOME/kepler/kiwi), the pop-up will show a 'No script file' error message:

  • Use the Add Post-Import file button and the same procedure for adding a post-import sil file


SIL scripts

NOTE: if you are using our Power Scripts™ for Jira app and you have created SIL™ scripts (validators, conditions or post functions) on the transitions of the exported workflow, these SIL™ scripts will be exported too.

4. Click the Export button

5. You'll see a SUCCESS  message on the screen. The exported file can be found in the KIWI™ home folder (this can be found at "PATH_TO_JIRA_HOME/kepler/kiwi"). Here you will find a new zip file named after your exported workflow(the name is a concatenation of the exported workflow name, the current date in the format yyyyMMddHHmm and .kwi) for instance, Workflowfortest_201310071619.kwi.zip is the file obtained by exporting the workflow Workflowfortest at local time 07.10.2013, 16:19. 

Now you have a brand new KIWI™ file that you should copy to your Jira system where you'll do the import.