Duplicate Epic

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 "Clone Template".

If you click on that entry, the clone configuration will open.

Details about the Clone Configuration are explained here: Clone Configuration

What can epic Clone be used for?

The app might be interesting for you especially if you have template issues you want to reuse. The cross-project clone functionality allows to set up template issues in a template project and copy them to productive projects whenever it is necessary.

Imagine you are working in a software development company and have some modules you need in every single software you write.

For those 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 Duplicate Epic you can copy the template epics and issues easily to your new project in one action for each epic. Compared to the manual setup of a new project this will save you a lot of time and you can focus on the really important topics!