Can an EPIC and all child issues be cloned at the same time?

[Mindy Johnson]

I have an EPIC that has several child issues and it needs to be cloned to move to a similar project.  Is there a way to clone the EPIC and have all the child issues cloned and still linked to the EPIC?

[Carlos Garcia Navarro · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mindy Johnson ,

This other post may be helpful: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-clone-the-whole-Epic-and-child-issues-included-in-the/qaq-p/1871964

[Mindy Johnson]

@Carlos Garcia Navarro - thank you so much for the extra information!

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

I'm glad it helped! :-) 

[Aleksandra Bosacka _Deviniti_]

Hello @Mindy Johnson

It's Aleksandra from Deviniti and I wanted to suggest another alternative to Automation that was explained in the original post.

If you need, you can easily recreate an existing Epic with the help of the Recreate issue option which is a part of the Issue Templates for Jira app. Please note that it's quite powerful and it will reflect all structure under a specific Epic, meaning all its stories, sub-tasks, and issue links :)

Hopefully, it will help in your use case!

Cheers,
Aleksandra

[Mindy Johnson]

Thanks Aleksandra!  I recently downloaded the plugin for Deep Clone.

It clones the epic, stories, tasks and subtasks.

Thanks

Mindy

[Aleksandra Bosacka _Deviniti_]

Thank you for your reply, Mindy

Glad to hear the use case is solved :)