How can I have an issues show in a second project?

[Matt Chamberlain]

HI team, I am fairly new to the world of Jira and I am trying to solve a problem for a couple of the teams I work with. We would like to link or clone issues so they are visible on another project without manually recreating issues. 

As an example if we have Project A (Finance) and Project B (Operations). If I am working with the finance team I create an issue in their project. I also want to be able to see this task in the operations project because that is where we as an operations team see what each member of the team is working on. 

Is there a way to link or clone this ticket so I can see it in both projects without manually recreating the issue?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Projects in Jira are the issue containers, they determine how the issues within them work.  It is not possible to have an issue in two projects at the same time.

But projects do not represent teams, they are better aligned with products.  Jira Software is built to support more Agile methods and one of the good ways to do that is "Board  = Team", rather than "Project = Team".

Your team/boards can include issues from many projects, so use that to represent your work, not a simple "project = team"

[Matt Chamberlain]

Thank you for the reply. That makes sense.