On these pages you find the documentation for the Epic Clone App for Jira.
What does Epic Clone do?
With Epic Clone you get the additional functionality to clone an epic together with all issues in that epic. The standard clone functionality in Jira only lets you clone the epic issue with (optionally) attachments, links or sub-tasks. Issues which are linked to the epic by the epic link field can't be cloned together with the epic within the same clone process.
Epic Clone furthermore provides the possibility to configure the cloned epic and issues. This includes also the cloning into a different project. The following issue attributes can be changed:
Epic:
Target Project (also all issues in epic will be cloned to that project)
Summary
Assignee
Epic Name
Find & Replace Function for Description
Component(s)
Fix Version(s)
Security Level
Original Estimate
Due Date
Issues in Epic:
Add Summary Prefix
Add Summary Postfix
Original Estimate
Due Date
Assignee
Story Points (for Stories only)
For attachments, sub-tasks and linked issues it can be decided whether they should be cloned or not.
How can Epic Clone be used?
After installation of the app you will notify an additional entry in the "More"-Menu of Epics. It is called "Clone Epic Template".
If you click on that entry, the epic clone configuration will open.
Details about the Epic 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 epics you want to reuse. The cross-project clone functionality allows to set up template epics 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 epic clone you can copy the template epics and issues easily to your new project, assign them to the right persons and set the estimation values all 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!
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