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On these pages you find the documentation for the Duplicate Epic App for Jira Cloud. |
What does Duplicate Epic do?
With Duplicate Epic you get the additional functionality to clone an epic together with all issues in epic. The standard clone functionality in Jira only lets you duplicate the issue with (optionally) attachments, links or sub-tasks. For epics, 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.
How can Duplicate Epic be used?
After installation of the app you will see an additional entry in the issue actions (three dots in the top right corner). It is called "Duplicate Epic" and only visible in issues of type epic.
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If you click on that entry, the duplicate epic screen will open.
What you can do on the Duplicate Epic screen?
If you duplicate epics in Jira Cloud with Duplicate Epic, a dialog will be displayed where you can make your configuration of the cloned epic. Let's assume we want to clone this issue with Duplicate Epic:
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It contains 3 child issues and 2 linked issues. If you now select the three dots →
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Duplicate Epic you will get
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Dialog for team-managed projects:
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Dialog for company-managed projects (Epic):
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this duplicate epic dialog.
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Summary: Set the summary for the
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duplicated epic. The summary of the source issue is displayed by default.
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Include Links:
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If
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the epic
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Assignee: Select the assignee for the cloned issue.
Labels: Existing labels of the source issue will be displayed by default. You can add additional custom labels in this field. Separate several labels with spaces. The labels inserted in the field will be added to all created issues.
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This list contains possibilities for the current app version. We plan to extend it so it will be possible in future version to also set other fields and issue attributes during cloning. Visit this page from time to time to see what’s new. |
If you click next, it is validated if the source issues type is available in the selected target project. If this is not the case, an error is displayed below the project field. Please choose a different target project and click on next again.
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If you click on next and everything is fine with the issue type, you will get to the second page where you can configure which child or linked issues you want to clone with the source issue.
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Child Issues
Choose for child issues which ones to clone together with the parent. Issue type, key and summary are displayed in the checkbox list.
Child issues can be issues in epic for epics or sub-tasks for other issues.
There will only be those issues displayed and are selectable which have an issue type available in the target project. If you miss some of them from the source issue, their issue type is not available in the target project you have chosen on the screen before.
Linked Issues
If the source issue has other issues linked to it, they will be displayed in a checkbox list on the right side of the dialog. On top, you can choose from three different clone link options.
Clone Link Options:
Clone links only: This means that the target issue will be linked to the same issues than the source issue
Clone linked issues: Linked issues to source issue will be copied as well and linked to the target issue
Don’t clone links: Nothing happens with links. They won’t be considered at all for cloning
Below the options you find the checkbox list of linked issues. Like for child issues only those links will be considered which are checked in the list.
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is linked to other issues, you will see a checkbox to optionally include the links when duplicating. If checked, the linked issues to the source epic will also be linked to the duplicated epic.
Issues in Epic: The issues in epic of the source epic are listed. Those issues will be duplicated together with the source epic.
If you click on submit, the duplication is started. After successful completion a message dialog appears which contains a link to the
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new epic.
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Please note that due to current limitations you might get an error message when |
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duplicating large |
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epics (e.g. with more than 20 |
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issues in epic). This message comes up as the |
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dialog is running into a timeout on time consuming copy operations. However, despite this message the |
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duplication will be completed in background and thus work also for large |
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epics. We hope we can find a solution for this issue soon. |
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If you experience a bug in the app, if you have an idea for improvement or if you have another topic you want to talk about, feel free to visit our service management or contact us via support@ij-solutions.atlassian.net |