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                          |  | 4 | By means of migrating from other issue-tracking systems, perform some external actions over tickets or simply synchronize different data bases, there are some available tools, plug-ins or scripts which lets you import or up-date tickets into Trac. | 
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                          |  | 6 | Below, follows a collection of some of those. | 
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                          |  | 8 | == !TicketImportPlugin == | 
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                          |  | 10 | [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketImportPlugin TicketImportPlugin] :: mainly, but not only, this plug-in lets you import or up-date into Trac a series of tickets from a '''CSV file''' or (if the [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd xlrd library] is installed) from an '''Excel file'''. | 
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                          |  | 12 | == !ExportImportXlsPlugin == | 
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                          |  | 14 | [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/ExportImportXlsPlugin ExportImportXlsPlugin] :: this plug-in add an admin panel for export and import tickets via '''XLS file'''. | 
                          |  | 15 | * It depends on the python packages xlwt/rxld. | 
            
                      
                        | 44 |  | Ticket data can be imported from Sourceforge using the [http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/sourceforge2trac.py sourceforge2trac.py] script, available in the contrib/ directory of the Trac distribution. | 
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                        | 46 |  | See #Trac3521 for an updated sourceforge2trac script. | 
                      
                        |  | 60 | [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/JiraToTracIntegration JiraToTracIntegration] :: provides tools to import Atlassian Jira backup files into Trac. The plug-in consists of a Python 3.1 commandline tool that: | 
                        |  | 61 | - Parses the Jira backup XML file | 
                        |  | 62 | - Sends the imported Jira data and attachments to Trac using the [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin XmlRpcPlugin] | 
                        |  | 63 | - Generates a htpasswd file containing the imported Jira users and their SHA-512 base64 encoded passwords | 
            
                      
                        | 68 |  | Available Options: | 
                        | 69 |  | --db <MySQL dbname>              - Mantis database | 
                        | 70 |  | --tracenv /path/to/trac/env      - Full path to Trac db environment | 
                        | 71 |  | -h | --host <MySQL hostname>     - Mantis DNS host name | 
                        | 72 |  | -u | --user <MySQL username>     - Effective Mantis database user | 
                        | 73 |  | -p | --passwd <MySQL password>   - Mantis database user password | 
                        | 74 |  | -c | --clean                     - Remove current Trac tickets before importing | 
                        | 75 |  | --help | help                    - This help info | 
                      
                        |  | 79 | [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/ScarabToTracScript ScarabToTracScript] :: script that migrates Scarab issues to Trac tickets | 
                        |  | 80 | * Requires [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin XmlRpcPlugin] | 
            
                      
                        | 82 |  | The [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/JiraToTracIntegration Jira2Trac plugin] provides you with tools to import Atlassian Jira backup files into Trac. | 
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                        | 84 |  | The plugin consists of a Python 3.1 commandline tool that: | 
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                        | 86 |  | - Parses the Jira backup XML file | 
                        | 87 |  | - Sends the imported Jira data and attachments to Trac using the [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin XmlRpcPlugin] | 
                        | 88 |  | - Generates a htpasswd file containing the imported Jira users and their SHA-512 base64 encoded passwords | 
                      
                        |  | 86 | Also, ticket data can be imported from Sourceforge using the [http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/sourceforge2trac.py sourceforge2trac.py] script, available in the contrib/ directory of the Trac distribution. | 
            
                      
                        | 98 |  | === Using an Excel (.xls) or comma delimited file (.csv) === | 
                        | 99 |  | This plugin http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketImportPlugin lets you import into Trac a series of tickets from a CSV file or (if the xlrd library is installed) from an Excel file. | 
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                        | 101 |  | You can also use it to modify tickets in batch, by saving a report as CSV, editing the CSV file, and re-importing the tickets. | 
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                        | 103 |  | This plugin is very useful when starting a new project: you can import a list of requirements that may have come from meeting notes, list of features, other ticketing systems... It's also great to review the tickets off-line, or to do massive changes to tickets. | 
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                        | 105 |  | Based on the ticket id (or, if no id exists, on the summary) in the imported file, tickets are either created or updated. | 
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                        |  | 97 | See also: | 
                        |  | 98 | * to import/export wiki pages: TracAdmin, | 
                        |  | 99 | * to export tickets: TracTickets, TracQuery |