how to import new story/task's under already existed Epic

[Siva Kumar]

I'm trying to import below data for an epic..which already exists in jira, i used epic id(issue id) as parent id

Issue Type	Issue Id	Parent Id	Summary
Story		Epic1	Story1
Task		Epic1	Task1
Task		Epic1	Task2

I'm getting below errors.

• Issue 'Story1' doesn't have Subtask Issue Type, its Parent Id mapping will be ignored.
• Issue 'Task1' doesn't have Subtask Issue Type, its Parent Id mapping will be ignored.
• Issue 'Task2' doesn't have Subtask Issue Type, its Parent Id mapping will be ignored.

Kindly help me where i am doing wrong.

i tried 

Issue Type	key/Issue Id	Summary
Epic	ExistedEpicID-1	Epic-1
Story		Company
Story		Branches
Task		User IDs

By this way it's not updating the existing one, instead creating new epic id, story and tasks are creating without a parent.

Thank you.

[Manon Soubies-Camy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Siva Kumar and welcome to Community!

Parent id is used to link a sub-task with its parent issue, which explains the error you're getting. Simply use the Epic link field to associate a new issue to an existing epic, for example:

Issue type;Summary;Epic name;Epic link
Epic;My new epic;new-epic;
Story;My new story;;new-epic
Task;My new task;;new-epic

Hope this helps,

- Manon

[Siva Kumar]

Thank you so much @Manon Soubies-Camy 

[cass.brown]

This didn't work for me as there was not an "Epic Link" Jira Field selection available when validating 

[Siva Kumar]

Please check your project configuration, whether if you are using right field configuration schema ?and check in the "Epic link" field configuration!