Migrate from YouTrack to monday Work Management

YouTrack Issues map directly to monday.com Items. We export the full issue body (summary as Item name, description as Item text column), status, priority, type, created/updated timestamps, reporter, and assignee. Issue links (subtask, duplicate, relates, blocks) map to monday.com Dependencies (column type) or Sub-items depending on link type. Issue key (e.g., PROJ-123) is preserved in a text column for traceability.

Each YouTrack Project maps to a monday.com Board. Project type (Scrum, Kanban, Bug-tracking) is preserved as a board property. We preserve project team memberships as monday.com team member column defaults, though monday.com permissions are workspace-level rather than project-level. Multiple YouTrack projects can map to separate monday.com Boards within a single workspace or across workspaces depending on the customer's organizational structure.

YouTrack Agile Boards store swimlane configuration, column states, and sprint assignments. We extract board definitions and reapply them as monday.com Board configurations. YouTrack sprints map to monday.com Groups (column groups on the board) with sprint name as the group header. Note: monday.com does not support timeboxed sprints with burndown charts natively; if the customer relies on burndown reporting, we document this gap for manual reconstruction in monday.com Dashboards.

YouTrack CustomFields are defined globally but have per-project bindings that can vary default values and visibility per project. We export the full CustomField definition and all ProjectCustomField bindings. On monday.com, columns are board-level only. We recreate each custom field as a monday.com column of the closest matching type (dropdown, text, number, date, person, status, tag). Custom field options migrate as column option labels. Default values from ProjectCustomField become board-level column defaults.

YouTrack enumerated custom fields (Priority, Type, custom enums) map to monday.com Status columns (for workflow-like progression) or Dropdown columns (for flat selections). Status columns in monday.com are color-coded and show progress on the board; Dropdown columns are static selections. We default to Status column for fields that represent workflow state (resolution, stage, severity) and Dropdown for categorical selectors (component, team, product area). The customer chooses during scoping.

YouTrack attachments (PersistentFile entities linked to Issues) are downloaded from the YouTrack REST API and re-uploaded to monday.com Items. We preserve original filenames and MIME types. monday.com file column stores files per Item. Large file migrations (exceeding monday.com storage limits) are flagged during scoping and alternative storage strategies are discussed.

YouTrack Issue comments map to monday.com Item updates. Author, timestamp, and comment body preserve. YouTrack's rich-text comment format (Markdown) is converted to monday.com's update format. Issue change history (status changes, field changes) does not have a native monday.com equivalent; we document the history log as a separate CSV export for audit purposes.

YouTrack Tags are label entities attached to Issues. We preserve the full tag set per Issue and recreate them as monday.com Tag column values. Tags are board-scoped in monday.com, so if tags are shared across projects, the customer decides whether to create separate tag sets per board or consolidate into workspace-level tagging conventions.

YouTrack Saved Queries store filter definitions referencing field names and values. We export them as filter configurations and document the equivalent monday.com Board filter setup. monday.com Board filters use column names rather than custom field IDs, so Saved Query references to internal field IDs require manual translation. We provide a written mapping of every Saved Query with the equivalent monday.com filter steps.

YouTrack Knowledge Base articles are project-scoped Markdown documents with tags and attachments. We export full article content, structure, and attachments. monday.com Docs is the closest equivalent for knowledge articles. We create monday.com Doc pages with article content, preserving tags as document labels. Alternatively, the customer may choose to migrate KB articles as Items on a dedicated Board for easier update tracking. The choice is made during scoping.

YouTrack ProjectTeam entities define group membership per project. We preserve team memberships and role assignments. monday.com's permission model is workspace-level (Owner, Member, Guest) rather than per-board or per-project. We document the original YouTrack project-team mapping and recommend workspace structuring that preserves team isolation if the customer requires it.

YouTrack Workitem entries store time spent linked to Issues and Users with duration and description. monday.com Time Tracking column is available on Pro plan and above. We export work entries and load them into monday.com Time Tracking columns if the destination plan supports it. If the customer is on Basic or Standard, we document the time entries as a number column (hours) for manual time-tracking setup.