How can I create template "Stories" in Jira?

[Zain Khushi]

Hi,

I code emails and manage each email project through Jira. It's getting tiresome to create a new Story for each email project and then create their sub-tasks. Most of then not, they're exactly the same.

Aside from cloning, does anyone know whether I can create a "template" Story that I can just select when creating a new Story and it already has all the sub-tasks/any other info that I populate?

Thanks!

:)

[Aleksandra Bosacka _Deviniti_]

Hello @Zain Khushi 

It’s Aleksandra from Deviniti - the vendor of the Issue Templates for Jira app.

If you’re open to using a plugin, you could use our app to create different kinds of templates (e.g. for bug reports or feature requests) and then apply them when creating new issues in your projects in order to pre-populate field values.

Templates can also include sub-tasks or be combined into more complex structures via issue links.

For more details about supported use cases, I encourage you to see our official documentation available here. I'm sure you will find it useful!

Cheers,
Aleksandra

[Gena Welk]

Beware of using automations for this purpose (as others have suggested).

See Gerard Cattin's comment (thread linked below):

"The only issue with that approach is that the Description template overrides what the user types in the Jira creation screen because it is triggered after the creation screen closes, not prior to opening it."

See this thread:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-can-I-create-an-User-Story-template-in-Jira/qaq-p/1011870?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=unpaid-social&utm_campaign=P:online*O:community*I:social_share*

[John Funk]

HI Zain,

What I do is to setup an Automation For Jira rule that creates all of the stories/issues/etc. when I create an Epic. So the rule runs when the Epic is created and creates several issues automatically, linking them back to the Epic. 

[Trudy Claspill]

There is not a feature specifically like that in JIRA Cloud.

You might find apps in the Marketplace that provide the functionality you want.

One question to answer is are you open to other methods for triggering this issue creation?

You could use the Import feature to create new issues through importing the data already stored in a CSV format. 

You could explore the Automation feature to set up something that can be triggered manually to create the issues.

I'm not sure how the Templating apps from the Marketplace let you trigger the issue creation since I have not used any of them.

[Mikael Sandberg]

One option would be to use automation to create the sub-tasks when you create the new story. Another would be to use an app like Issue Templates for Jira.