What happens to linked tasks after changing the parent Epic to a Task?

[Michael Royle]

We currently work in Epics but have decided to convert the smaller ones into Tasks.  What happens to the tasks that were linked to the Epic and do they become unlinked?

Is there an option to automatically delete these tasks when converting the parent to a task or convert these to sub tasks?

Thanks in advance.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

The tasks will become unlinked. If you do not need these tasks, then you need to delete these tasks before moving Epics to another issue type.

You can find these tasks with JQL like this:

epic is not empty

Then you can use the Bulk Delete feature.

If you want to convert the tasks to sub-tasks (not to delete). Then use the same JQL query to find all such tasks and then use the convert to sub-task option in the More menu in the view issue screen. This operation should be done on issue by issue basis.

If you want to do everything automatically, then you would need an app like Power Scripts, ScriptRunner.

[Michael Royle]

Thank you @Alexey Matveev , I'll use the search and bulk delete this way.