Import one real board, check every mapping before a single card is created, and move the rest of the team once the pilot has earned it.
Trello JSON, CSV, and Kanera board archives ship in the product. For platform-specific history, files, or structures that do not fit those routes, plan an assisted move.
Upload one board’s JSON export. Kanera reads it and hands you the mapping: which lists to create, reuse, or skip, which labels and fields to match, and who each Trello member is here.
Cards, descriptions, due dates, checklists, comments, field values, and attachment links come across. Connect Trello during review and uploaded files are copied too.
Workspace settings → Import
The Trello route in detailBring an export from Jira, Asana, a spreadsheet, or any system that can produce CSV. Kanera detects the layout, then lets you decide what every column means.
Map repeated columns, multi-value cells, dates, lists, labels, people, comments, checklists, and typed custom fields. Group repeated rows into one card with a source ID.
Workspace settings → Import
The CSV import guideExport any board to JSON from its own toolbar, then import that archive into another workspace — or another Kanera install entirely.
This is the route between Kanera Cloud and your own server, in either direction. The same mapping review runs before anything is written.
Workspace settings → Import
Self-hosting KaneraFor data that does not fit a board archive or useful CSV — including history, attachments, or platform-specific structure — we plan the move with you.
We read the source structure, agree what maps cleanly and what needs separate treatment, then script the remaining move against Kanera’s REST API.
For company evaluations
The REST APIStill deciding whether to move? Read the case tool by tool: Trello alternative, ClickUp alternative, Linear alternative, Jira alternative, Asana alternative, Notion alternative, monday.com alternative, Wrike alternative, PLANKA alternative, Focalboard alternative, Wekan alternative, and self-hosted Trello alternative.
Every built-in importer follows this review-first sequence. Kanera analyses the export and writes nothing while you work through the decisions.
Kanera reads the export and reports what is in it. For CSV, it also detects the encoding and delimiter and previews every source column.
Map CSV columns when needed, then decide whether each list, label, and custom field should be created, reused, or skipped. Incompatible field types are never guessed.
Map each source assignee to someone with access here, or leave them unmapped. CSV comments are attributed to the person running the import.
A summary shows the board options, skipped cards, data issues, and every mapping. Only confirming creates data.
Start with one real project. The current system stays exactly where it is while the team checks the structure, the imported data, permissions, and an ordinary working day.
Under 30 minutesto prepare and review a standard Trello board. Larger moves start with one representative board so the structure and field mapping are settled before the rest follows.
CSV carries cards, descriptions, dates, lists, labels, mapped assignees, comments, checklist items, and custom-field values. Trello JSON also preserves attachment links and can copy uploaded files.
You decide per column and per destination item: import it, create it, map it onto something existing, or skip it. The review reports rows and values that cannot be imported.
Someone who knows the current workflow and the people in it. They review the mappings before the import and validate the board afterwards, then decide what moves next.
A migration promise is worth very little if leaving means raising a support ticket. Every board carries its own Export control, and you never need us to use it.
The complete board archive: lists, labels, custom fields and their options, cards, assignees, checklists and items, comments, reactions, watchers, and attachments.
A workbook of the board. Table view exports too, so a filtered, grouped, totalled report leaves as Excel or JSON.
The same product self-hosts with Docker Compose, source-available under Elastic License 2.0, with no Kanera per-seat fee.
For suitable company evaluations we will go through your current setup, pick the workflow worth piloting, and prepare the first Kanera workspace with you.
Three import routes ship in the product: Trello board JSON, general CSV, and Kanera board JSON. Each runs a reviewable mapping flow from Workspace settings, under Import.
Trello has the richest source-specific path, including attachment links and optional file copying. CSV works with Jira, Asana, spreadsheets, and other exports when the data fits rows and columns.
Yes, in either direction. Export the board to JSON from its toolbar, then import that archive from Workspace settings on the destination install.
The archive carries lists, labels, custom fields and their options, cards, assignees, checklists and their items, comments, reactions, watchers, and attachments.
No. Kanera reads an export file you supply. It never writes back to the source, and the original board is left exactly as it was.
An import is a one-time copy rather than a live sync, so changes made in the source system afterwards are not reflected in Kanera.
A standard Trello board can usually be prepared and reviewed in under 30 minutes. The import itself depends on card volume, history, and whether attachments are being copied.
For a wider move, plan around one representative board first. Confirm the structure, the field mapping, and permissions before the rest follows.
Yes, and for a first evaluation it is the safest order. Import one representative project, run it in parallel, and keep the current tool in place until the team has judged the result on real work.
From any board, use Export in the board toolbar. JSON produces the complete board archive; Excel produces a workbook for reporting and finance. Table view exports a filtered, grouped report to Excel or JSON.
The REST API covers workspaces, boards, lists, cards, labels, custom fields, comments, attachments, and notes, and Kanera is source-available under Elastic License 2.0 if you would rather run it yourself.
For suitable company evaluations, yes. We help choose the pilot board, decide which boards should become workspaces, plan list, status, and custom-field mapping, plan member and guest access, and agree how the result gets verified before the rollout continues.
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