Import Risks

Import risks either by adding risk to existing Jira issues or importing external Excel risk registers

1. Internal - Add risk to existing Jira issues

Select issues with JQL. Then select issue risk custom fields (value blank or 0-4 as number or string). If no custom fields are selected inherent/residual risk will be set to “Undefined“.

2. External - Import risks from Excel

For external risk registers with assignee and many custom fields. The first option “Internal - Add risk to Jira issues“ with Jira bulk import might be a better match

There are four types of Excel risk columns. Please rename your Excel headers to those and also remove empty starting columns and rows (download example excel).

Risk Columns
Jira Columns
Jira Custom Field Columns → info: cannot be mandatory in selected project issue screen. risks are created and populated in two steps
User Columns

Risk Columns (risk severity is calculated)	Comments
`inherent probability`	value 0-4 (empty cell is assigned undefined risk)
`inherent impact`	value 0-4 (empty cell is assigned undefined risk)
`residual probability`	value 0-4 (empty cell is assigned undefined risk)
`residual impact`	value 0-4 (empty cell is assigned undefined risk)

Jira Columns	Comments
`summary`
`description`
`priority`
`status`
`due date`
`labels`	comma (,) seperated
`created`	Jira automatically created value
`updated`	Jira automatically created value
`resolved`	Jira automatically created value

Jira Custom Field Columns	Comments
Text Field (single line) or Short text	Excel header shall match existing custom field name
Number field or Number	Excel header shall match existing custom field name
Select List (single choice)	Excel header shall match existing custom field name (Jira company-managed projects)

User Columns
If a risk register is created as part of the import. Then all columns not matching above will be created as user columns in the risk register.