How to delete linked issues associated to an EPIC?

[Mohamed Ghayasuddin]

Hi All,

Do we have an option or any condition to be set, to delete all issues linked to an Epic whilst deleting an EPIC.

To delete an Epic, I simply access the EPIC screen and go to More > Delete. But this doesn't deletes issues associated to it

Please advise.

Regards,

Mohamed.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Use the bulk delete feature.

First query all issues belonging to the epic with a query like this:

"Epic Link" = YOUR EPIC KEY

Then bulk delete all the issues:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/editing-multiple-issues-at-the-same-time-861257342.html

Then you can delete the Epic.

[Alexey Matveev]

Otherwise you would need an app like Power Scripts, ScriptRunner, Automation for JIra to do it automatically.

If you want to use the Power Scripts app, then you could create a listener on the Delete Issue event with a code like this:

string keys = selectIssues("\"Epic Link\" = "  + k);

for (string k in keys) {

   deleteIssue(k);

}

In this case if you delete an Epic. all issues in the epic will be deleted automatically. 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Mohamed Ghayasuddin   Welcome to the community!

A variation on what @Alexey Matveev is suggesting is to filter for the linked issues and epic at one time, and then use bulk edit to delete them.  A query to select them would be:

project = YOUR-PROJECT
 AND "Epic Link" = YOUR-EPIC-KEY
 OR Key = YOUR-EPIC-KEY
 ORDER BY Key

With bulk operations, verify you see what you expect before confirming the operation...especially delete.

Best regards,

Bill

[Adam Stein]

You don't really need to craft a query or filter for this. Just view the epic and then click the "..." menu above child issues and select bulk edit.