Issue

• When using the Copy Product Data feature to migrate Jira projects between cloud sites, Goals and Focus Areas data is not included in the migration.

Actual Results

• Work items migrated to the destination site do not retain any links to Goals or Focus Areas that existed on the source site.
• The 'Goals' field is not included on any screens that are migrated - it must be manually added to screens on the destination site before it becomes visible on work items.
• Focus Area associations are similarly lost and must be re-established manually.

Desired Results

• Work items migrated via Copy Product Data should retain their existing links to Goals and Focus Areas.
• The 'Goals' field should be included in migrated screens where it was present on the source site.
• Focus Area associations should be preserved on migrated work items.

Business Impact

• Customers performing cloud-to-cloud migrations (e.g., site consolidation, M&A, federation) who have adopted Atlassian Goals and Focus as part of their strategic planning workflow are forced to manually re-link all work items to their respective Goals and Focus Areas after migration. For projects with significant numbers of work items linked to strategic objectives, this creates substantial post-migration overhead and risk of data loss.

Workaround

• After migration:
  • Manually add the 'Goals' field to relevant screens on the destination site.
  • Open each migrated work item and re-establish the link to the appropriate Goal (if within the same org, existing Goals may be accessible via the Goal picker).
  • Re-establish Focus Area associations manually on the destination site.
  • This workaround is feasible for small project migrations but does not scale for enterprise customers with large numbers of linked work items.