Clone subtasks from other issue (using Groovy)

[Andrew Striletskyi]

Hello everyone. How to clone subtasks from other issue? (using Groovy)  

[Mark Markov · Accepted solution]

Hello @Andrew Striletskyi

You can use IssueFactory fow that

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.1.9/com/atlassian/jira/issue/IssueFactory.html

[Andrew Striletskyi]

Yes , I know about. I have a situation when I want to create another issue. For example 

def artifactIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject("TEST-2999")

def newArtifactIssue = issueFactory.cloneIssue(artifactIssue)

But It's not cloning an issue

[Mark Markov]

clone issue just clone issue object, you need to create it after.

And for some reason it dont clone info about parent object, so you need to do that too.

Here the script:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def issueFactory = ComponentAccessor.getIssueFactory()
def subtaskManager = ComponentAccessor.getSubTaskManager()
def issue = issueManager.getIssueObject("TEST-1")
log.error("SOURCE ISSUE KEY: ${issue.getKey()}")

def toclone = issueFactory.cloneIssueWithAllFields(issue)
def cloned = issueManager.createIssueObject(issue.reporter, toclone)
def parent = issueManager.getIssueObject(subtaskManager.getParentIssueId(issue))
subtaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(parent, cloned, issue.reporter)
log.error("CLONED ISSUE KEY: ${cloned.getKey()}")

[Andrew Striletskyi]

Yes , It's OK for me. But last question: how to clone all subtasks of this issue?

[Mark Markov]

Like this

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def issueFactory = ComponentAccessor.getIssueFactory()
def subtaskManager = ComponentAccessor.getSubTaskManager()
def issue = issueManager.getIssueObject("IM-474172") // parent issue
log.error("SOURCE ISSUE KEY: ${issue.getKey()}")
def subtasks = issue.getSubTaskObjects()
if (subtasks)
{
    subtasks.each {subtask ->
        def toclone = issueFactory.cloneIssueWithAllFields(subtask)
        def cloned = issueManager.createIssueObject(issue.reporter, toclone)
        subtaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(issue, cloned, issue.reporter)
        log.error("CLONED ISSUE KEY: ${cloned.getKey()}")
    }
}

[Andrew Striletskyi]

Oh, thank you!

[Mark Markov]

You re welcome!

If it helps you, please mark answer as accepted :)

[Vineela Durbha]

@Mark Markov 

I have created a new ticket using the code above and it got created successfully. But the issue is that new request is getting created with the created date of parent ticket. Is there any way the created date can be changed to current date?

[Michael Spoonauer]

I use the above code as well.  But is there a way to return the sub-tasks in the order in which they're placed in the to-be-cloned issue?  Because for us, order matters in terms of the order in which you execute sub-tasks, and that order is lost when cloning sub-tasks.

It looks like they're returned to the caller in the order in which they were created, not the order in which they were placed.