Cloning an Epic and associated stories within a single project which currently has no add on/plug in

[Steve Saxton]

Using a clients cloud hosted instance of Jira, so largely tied to their configuration. Currently, working within a single project. Have set up a framework Epic with a number of associated stories as part of assurance tracking for client. Need to duplicate the framework twice to allow for 3 identical sets of Epic/stories to reflect different suppliers.

I believe the client does not have the necessary add on / plug in (Deep Clone? Or are there other options).

Failing that, is is possible to simply copy the set up across different projects>

Looking for a cheap (free!) solution ideally. 

Not Jira experts, so apologies if this sounds fairly basics. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

You could export the issue data, then import it to create a new set of issues with the same data.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-core-cloud/docs/create-issues-using-the-csv-importer/

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Steve Saxton -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can do this cloning using the automation rules, which are now included with the Cloud version of JIRA.

To accomplish what you ask, you would need to split the problem up into parts: clone the parent, and then branch to iterate over the children to clone them.  As needed, you can selectively alter fields as part of the cloning.  Note that clone will not copy the links, comments, or attachments.

Please see here for more information on getting started with automation rules and the cloning action:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/automate-your-jira-cloud-processes-and-workflows/

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/automation-actions/

Best regards,

Bill