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On these pages, you find will discover the documentation for the Epic Clone App for Jira Cloud. |
What does epic Clone do?
With Epic Clone, you get the additional functionality to clone gain the added feature of cloning an issue together along with all its child issues. The Unlike the standard clone functionality function in Jira, which only lets allows you to clone the issue with (optionally) optional attachments, links, or sub-tasks. For epics as an example, issues which are linked to the epic by the epic link or parent field can't be cloned together with the epic within the same clone process.Epic Clone furthermore provides the possibility to configure , Epic Clone enables you to clone items, their child issues and linked issues within a single cloning process.
Moreover, Epic Clone offers the flexibility to customize the cloned issues. This includes customization extends to cloning into a different project . Cloning from and transitioning between company-managed - to and team-managed - projects and vice versa is also possible. The following attributes of the issue attributes can be changedmodified:
Parent Issue:
Target Project (also all child issues will be cloned to that project)
Summary
Epic Name (for company-managed projects only)
Find and replace in description field
Decide whether to clone attachments or not
Decide whether to clone parent link or not (only available on Premium or Enterprise plans)
Assign to me (only parent or all issues)
Label(s) Assignee
Labels (select from existing labels or create new labels)
Component(s) Components (for company-managed projects only)
Fix Version(s) Versions (for company-managed projects only)
Due date
Original Estimate
Child Issues and sub-tasks of child issues:
Separately decide which issue to clone and which not
Decide whether to clone attachments or not
Summary
Assignee
Original Estimate
Due date
Story Points (for Story issue type only)
Linked Issues - parent:
Clone links only or linked issues
Separately decide which links / linked issues to clone and which not
Linked Issues - child issues:
Clone external links or recreate internal links after cloning (see here for details)
Separately decide which links to clone and which not
How can Epic Clone be used?
After installation of Upon installing the app, you will see notice an additional entry extra option in the issue actions menu (located as three dots in the top right corner) . It is called labeled as "Clone with child issues".
If you click on that entry, the clone configuration will open.Details about the clone configuration are explained hereWhen you select the clone option, it will trigger the opening of the clone configuration.
For a comprehensive understanding of the clone configuration, refer to the following details: Where to find Epic Clone?
What can Epic Clone be used for?
The app might be interesting for you application could be of great interest to you, especially if you have template issues you want to reuse. The encounter recurring template challenges. Its cross-project clone functionality allows to set up feature enables you to establish template issues in within a template designated project and copy duplicate them to productive projects whenever it is necessary.Imagine you are working in into active projects as needed.
Consider a scenario where you work at a software development company firm and have some require certain modules you need in every single software project you writeundertake.
For those These modules the different stories may be similar for every project. It would save you a lot of work for creation and structuring of those issues if you would have them in a template epic which you can easily clone with all issues in one go whenever it is necessary. At the beginning of each project you could create the structure with epics and issues a lot faster. With epic Clone you can copy entail similar stories across various projects. Having them stored in a template epic would significantly reduce the time and effort required for issue creation and structuring. By simply cloning the template epic along with all its associated issues when needed, you can swiftly establish the project structure at the project's outset.
By utilizing Epic Clone, you can effortlessly replicate the template epics and issues easily to your new project in one action a single step for each epic. Compared to the manual setup of This streamlined process not only saves you considerable time compared to manually setting up a new project this will save you a lot of time and you can focus on the really important topics!but also allows you to concentrate on the core aspects of your project.
Access settings for Jira administrators
With the latest update we introduced a global app settings page in the Jira system administration. Jira administrators can limit access to Epic Clone to certain administrators have the ability to control the accessibility of Epic Clone, restricting it to specific projects or user groups. If you only want For example, if you prefer the app to be used only function in template projects, for instance, you can limit confine Epic Clone to those particular projects. Users won’t be able to use will then be restricted from utilizing the app on in any other projects than those specified on apart from the ones specified in the app settings page.
You also might want to limit access Moreover, you may opt to limit the app's usage to internal users onlyexclusively, so thereby preventing external users in within your instance shouldn’t be able to use the appfrom accessing it. This restriction can be easily be set implemented by selecting choosing only groups with containing internal users on within the app settings page.
For more details on comprehensive information regarding the app settings, see please refer to the documentation. App settings
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