Parent field for linking sub-tasks to Story/Task

[Randy_Elias]

Hi All,

    I have a situation where I want to import a massive set of sub-tasks (via CSV file) into JIRA. During the import I'd like to link each sub-task to an existing standard issue (story/task). Is there a field in the sub-task similar to the "Epic Link" field for story/task?

   For various reasons, I need to use story/task as the parent issue.

Thanks,

  Randy

[Tarun Sapra · Accepted solution]

Yes, it's doable, you add a column for issue id and add the existing issueKey in CSV so that while importing the issues, all the issues become sub-tasks for the existing issue.

Possible duplicate - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/CSV-Importing-of-sub-tasks-and-linking-to-existing-Story/qaq-p/224226

[Randy_Elias]

Hi Tarun,

    Thanks for the tip!

    I was able to successfully upload the CSV using an empty Issue Id field and parent Id (issue key of parent story). I confirmed it created the subtask under the story as needed. 

   However, I got the following errors after the import:

Import completed with 14 errors:

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

   Any ideas what these errors mean?

Thanks,

  Randy

[Randy_Elias]

Please disregard. 

I had extra junkin the CSV file that caused the errors!

Thanks,

  Randy

[Tarun Sapra]

Please accept/upvote the answer if it works for you. thanks.

[Ramaiah Pendli]

while csv import, can you fill below deatails to link as task to sub-task. make sure add details for task and sub-task as well.

Summary, Issue key, Issue id, Parent id, Issue Type, Project key, Project name, Project type

[Prateek Yadav]

Any idea how to do this if I have both Parent(Story) and Child ticket(Task) already created in JIRA?

P.S. - Mapping Issue ID, Parent ID and Issue Type doesn't work

[Nina Marshall]

Is there an answer how to get the sub-tasks linked to parent ticket in the releases view?

[Yuta Nagano]

@Tarun Sapra and @Randy_Elias I tried the method you described above and I couldn't get my sub-tasks to link to their parent tasks. I added a new column labeled, "Parent Link" since their is a field called Parent Link that you can import to when importing a CSV file of tasks. In that new Parent Link column I added I typed in the story ID for each one. However, there is no association being created... I think I am misunderstanding the instructions above as well as the instructions referenced in the answer from Tarun. My apologies! Is there a screenshot you can share?

Here is a screenshot of my file: