What is the impact on modifying link type name

[lorenze larot]

I'm getting a warning saying "The clone link type "Cloners"  does not exist. A link to the original issue will not be created.  I can disregard this warning and can clone an issue just fine but it does not link the cloned and parent ticket. I  check on issue linking (jira software 7.4.3) and cannot find the cloners   but  clones.  Is there any negative impact on renaming this from clones to cloners?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira does not really care much what you name your links.

But there are some functions that do.  They won't break anything if they can't find or use the links they expect, but they won't fulfil their functions properly.  Most of them are in Apps, rather than the main Jira Applications, but one that is in the Application is the "clone" function.  It needs the "cloners" link type to be able to link the original and cloned issues with it.

However, you can still rename it.  It does not look for a fixed "cloners" link, it looks for the value in the jira.clone.linktype.name property in your jira-config.properties file in the home directory.  If the file is missing, or the property not in it, then it assumes "cloners" is the link to try to use.

So, to get it to work with the data in your screenshot, I think all you have to do is add jira.clone.linktype.name=Clones to your jira-config.properties file and restart Jira to force it to re-read it.

[lorenze larot]

Hello @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

Thanks for your response.  Is the jira-config.properties file not automatically created? I cant seem to find it in my home directory.  I will try to rename the clones  to cloners and see if that would fix this warning and issue links between cloned and parent ticket.

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the file won't be there by default, you need to create it for yourself.