Creating multiple Jira issues from a Confluence table, when some rows have already had this done

[John McCabe]

I've a table of requirements in Confluence that I've previously selected and created multiple Jira issues from. So far so good.

Now, I've updated the table, adding a bunch more requirement/stories into it. Now, when I select the table and choose to create multiple issues, all the ones I've already done are included with information on the link to Jira that's shown in the table, e.g.:

Following issues will be created:

[] Blah blah PRJ-14 Backlog

[] Blah blah 2 PRJ-15 Backlog

(where PRJ is the project name in Jira). If I press Create, is this really going to create a bunch of new issues in Jira that are duplicates of the ones that are already there, or is it clever enough to not do that?

John

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting] · Accepted solution]

The "create multiple issues from table" functionality can't do that, unfortunately.  If you only have a few, the easiest thing would be to close/won't fix the newly created issues in Jira, then edit the Confluence page and remove the duplicate Jira lozenges from the table. They delete like text in the editor.

[Bill Goodall]

Wouldn't another option be to split the table in the confluence page? Split the table once you have a batch that is ready to be imported, run the import process. And leave the remainder in a backlog table.