Clone child work item

[Armelia McCord]

Clone child work item within an Epic?

[Luka Hummel - codefortynine]

Hi @Armelia McCord and welcome to the community!

Cloning child work items within an Epic can be efficiently managed using our app Deep Clone for Jira. Deep Clone is specifically designed for such scenarios, offering a dedicated Epic/Tree Clone feature. This functionality enables you to easily clone an entire Epic, including its child issues and maintaining the original hierarchical structure.

With Deep Clone for Jira, you can:

• Clone entire Epic trees, preserving the parent-child relationships automatically.
• Selectively clone additional content, such as attachments, comments, work logs, and even issue statuses, ensuring a comprehensive duplication.
• Automatically link clones to the original issues for improved traceability.
• Clone into the same or different projects with options to edit or automatically adjust fields during cloning.

[Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_]

Hi @Armelia McCord 

There is no built-in feature in Jira to directly clone a child work item within an Epic. However, you can achieve this by navigating to the Issue Navigator and using the JQL query: parentEpic = <epic-key>. From there, you can clone any of the child work items by clicking the three-dot menu next to the issue.

If this isn’t what you were asking, I agree with @John Funk . It would be helpful to provide more details in your question.

[John Funk]

Hi Armelia - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

We will need way more information than this. What exactly are you trying to do? 

[John Funk]

Also, check this previous post about doing that with an automation rule. 

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Cloning-an-epic-and-including-its-child-issues/qaq-p/2206890