Reusing same set of tasks for projects

[David]

Jira doesn't support cloning an epic and it's children. We have projects where we have to recreate the same set of tasks for each project and there are a lot of tasks and it take a long time to manually create them for each project.

Has anyone figured out a way to support this, without the use of 3rd party apps? If not, has anyone come up with a decent workaround? I've seen a suggestion to upload an excel file of the tasks, but looking for other options and ideas to improve this process.

Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There is a way to do this without 3rd party apps, but it's a bit clumsy and you need to think about blocking it.

You can set up automations that can create issues (and sub-tasks) based on triggers.  If you're a bit clever with the rules, you could create one that runs when you create an issue in any project, but put a condition on it so that it only runs for the very first issue created in a project.

We use Scriptrunner on our Server version to do this in certain types of project, but we do it in the workflow - these projects have a metadata issue type, which we rarely need more than one in a project, so people know not to create many of them, and it's almost always the first one we create in those projects.  But that's probably not a rule you want in your case.

Off the top of my head, I'm not sure you could do the condition with a simple "Only if ey sequence = 1", but you certainly could do it if you had a business process that set the summary to "Project intiation issue", or had a custom field that flagged the issue as one that should trigger all the other issue creations.

[Trudy Claspill]

I have a similar situation. I put the issues that need to be replicated into a CSV and using the System Admin > External System Import > CSV option to create the new set of issues from the CSV.