Can an Issue ID be referenced from within an Issue?

[Deleted user]

A customer uses baselines quite a lot. They want to create an issue, Issue_001, then

clone Issue_001, creating Issue_002 - representing baseline 002.

Clone Issue_002, creating Issue_003 - representing baseline 003.

Clone Issue_003, creating Clone_004 - representing Baseline 004.

and so on.

They would like to have a field in each of these issues, a sort of universal ID, that would refer back to the original issue - Issue_001.

I was thinking they could do this by using the IssueID.

Whey would like to have this done automatically.

What do you think? Is using the IssueID a good idea? Can this be done automatically evey time a clone is created - get the IssueID and populate a field with it?  Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you for your help,

Jim

[John Funk]

Hi James,

Cloning an issue should automatically create a link between the two issues. It should be in the Linked Issues field. And/or you could also create a custom field and copy the key from the original issue into the custom field of the second issue.