How to clone an epic with all the child issues from different projects - 6.5

Created by Former user (Deleted)
Last updated: Jul 03, 2019

Description

This page describes a scenario where you can clone an epic with the associated child issues from various projects.

Pre-requisites

This scenario requires your administrator to configure the following as a part of the clone configuration for the intended projects:

1.project.<project-1-key>.*.*=<project-1-key>
1.project.<project-2-key>.*.*=<project-2-key>
1.plus.project.<project-4-key>.*.*=<project-4-key>

For an nth clone customization, the respective configuration of the intended projects is:

n.project.<project-1-key>.*.*=<project-1-key>

Details

To clone an epic with all the child issues from different projects:

  1. Consider an epic with a subtask and four associated issues (two of which are from two different projects) as displayed in the following image:

  2. Perform nth custom clone operation as configured in the settings with the following clone options selected:

  3. Click Create to create the cloned epic. The parent epic is now cloned to a new epic with the subtask and all the respective child issues cloned. Refer to the following image: