Move stories into an epic within a project

[anna.brooks]

I have a series of subtasks within an epic that don't belong to a task or story. I would like to convert them to stories.

when I try to the Convert to Issue option I can convert them to stories but they get removed from the epic and become stories within the project.

I've also tried Move but this doesn't allow me to change the issue type.

When I click on the subtask icon where sometimes you can change the issue type, I get no other issue types in the drop-down to change it to.

Any help is appreciated!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @anna.brooks 

Would you please post some screen images of what you are seeing? And, is this a Team-Managed (next-gen) or Company-Managed (classic) project?

I have not seen a sub-task directly assigned to an Epic before; it always belonged to another issue type (story, task, bug) which was then associated to the Epic.

Best regards,

Bill

[anna.brooks]

HI Bill

Thanks for your response. Its a classic project. The issues were initially created as subtasks within a story and then when I tried to move them to be stories within a new epic I couldn't work out how to do it so I first moved them to the epic before attempting to convert to stories. I seem to be in a trap of only being able to convert them from subtasks within the new epic to stories within the project, and back again.

I'm not sure what screenshot would be useful to see. 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi Anna,

I just replicated your steps and learned something new: indeed you can have a sub-task assigned to an epic for some reason.  Curious...

What I did to fix this is

• use Move from the ... menu to move the sub-task's parent back to a user story
• use Convert to Issue from the ... menu to change the sub-task to a user story
• check the epic link; mine seemed to auto-magically be correct (copied from the parent story).  If not, set the epic link.

[anna.brooks]

Thank you! I hadn't thought to change the epic link. All working now.

[Bill Sheboy]

Anna, I am glad that is working now.  Please consider marking this question as answered.  That will help others in the community find solutions to similar problems faster.  Thanks!