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title: "Export/ Import a template"
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> Macro (aura-html)

<span style="color: #333300">On the Gaia Configuration page (Jira Administration → Manage apps → Gaia Configuration), you're able to export and import the template as a package.</span>

<span style="color: #333300">You can either save exported file as a backup in your version control system (VCS) or put it anywhere else. You can also send it to another Gaia for Jira user.</span>

### Template file content - what is exported

<span style="color: #333300">When exporting a Gaia for Jira package, you get a .package file. The file contains :</span>

- **<span style="color: #333300">Gaia Template</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - The template file contains all the settings of your Gaia template. This includes all the configurable options of the template (e.g.: Project description, Schemes, etc.).</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Plugin version file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - </span><span style="color: #333300">This file contains the identifier of the version of Gaia for Jira used to do the export.</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Config file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - This file contains information about the issue type and custom fields in the issue type scheme selected in the Gaia template.</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Statuses file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - This file contains the issue statuses used by the workflows.</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Schemes file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - This file contains all configuration information about the various schemes used by the template.</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Workflow files</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - Those files contain all the workflows in the workflow scheme selected in the Gaia template.</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Jira issues file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - This file contains a copy of the Jira issues file used (if any).</span>
- **<span style="color: #333300">Confluence space file</span>**<span style="color: #333300"> - This file contains a copy of the Confluence space file used (if any).</span>


> ℹ️ **Import**
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ <span style="color: #333300">Note, i</span><span style="color: #333300">f the template you are trying to import is a package, the template will automatically have a new Issue type scheme and workflow scheme created and an association will be made between the template and the schemes.</span>