Consolidate Workspaces
Asked by Suzy Davis:

Hi - I'm a solo-preneur with a free account and over the years have created new boards for different client projects etc. I rarely have members - and those boards that I did, are no longer in use. I'm the sole user.

So I moved to the new Workspace model and go the fright of my life - thought I'd lost all my boards, but then realised they have all been converted to separate workspaces.

Years ago, I was and still am happy to become a paying customer - and back then was looking to do that so I could back my boards up; but because I have so many client project boards, I would have needed to sign up for each one which was too expensive.

I may now sign up with maybe two accounts - one for my business development, one for my next large client project.

If that sounds like the best way forward, how do I move my current client boards for different small client projects into one board under my new workspace? And my bus development boards - now in separate workspaces - into one board in my new workspace?

I simply can't afford to pay for them all with separate user accounts - plus, it doesn't make sense to me to do that either.

Thanks!

Suzy


Answers:
author: Theodora Boudale
body: Hi Suzy and welcome to the community!

I'm not really sure what you are referring to by 'boards', I assume that you mean different repositories?

If you have different repositories in different workspaces, what you can do is transfer ownership of the repositories from one workspace to another:

* <https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/transfer-repository-ownership/>

When you make a transfer to another workspace you are an admin of, you will receive a transfer request email at the email address of the Bitbucket account who is admin of the workspace you're transferring to. You'll need to follow the link in that email and accept the transfer for the process to complete.

After you transfer all repositories to the one or two workspaces you want to keep, double-check that the old workspaces are empty (that they own no repositories) and you can then delete them.

Please note that when you transfer repositories, the URL of the repositories will change. If you have a clone of these repositories on your machine, you'll need to update their URLs (this is covered in the "Update local configuration files with the new repository URL" section of the documentation I linked).

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know!

Kind regards,  
Theodora

comments: author: Suzy Davis
body: Thanks Theordora - I had lots of groups of, I guess, repositories, which had one or more Boards, and then with the new platform, they were all converted to new workspaces.

I have now copied them all into one Workspace and give them a prefix so that I can group 'like' boards togehter - ie Client boards, and my own dev boards etc.

It's a bit cumbersome.

As you say, I may need to split them across 2-3 workspaces. And maybe just workout which ones I need backup capability for - that would be the main benefit of paying to me. Better organisation and backup.

Thanks again!

Suzy


author: Theodora Boudale
body: Hi Suzy,

Thank you for the feedback and you are very welcome!

Repositories in a workspace can be grouped into projects:

* <https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/group-repositories-into-projects/>

When viewing a workspace on Bitbucket website, you'll see the option "Projects" in the sidebar. You can create more projects and then move some repositories to a different project. If you have e.g. 2 or 3 projects in a workspace, you can then view all repositories of a certain project by selecting the project.

After you have created more projects, you can move repositories to a different project the following way:

1. Navigate to the repository you want to add to your new project.
2. Click **Repository settings** in the sidebar.
3. Select the project from the **Project** menu, where you want to move the repository.
4. Click **Save changes**.

You can try using different projects in a single workspace to group the repositories if this is easier for you than having multiple workspaces.

Kind regards,  
Theodora


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