How to move subtask of parent to new project after moving parent to new project?

[Molly Favret]

I moved a parent ticket to a new project, and was hoping the subtask would move as well but it did not. So now I have a case where the parent and subtask have different projects (different keys) but still have the parent-subtask relationship.

How can I move the subtasks over to the new project as well?

[Ramiro Pointis · Accepted solution]

Have you tried going to the Sub-Task, select the 'Move' option and follow the steps? You can choose the same parent again, but this it will have the new project key.

[Molly Favret]

Yes, I had tried that but it didnt work. When I chose the parent, it said this is already the parent for the subtask. The parent key is updated, but the subtask key is not.

[Ramiro Pointis]

Here it is a support issue about this matter.

[Molly Favret]

Thanks. It seems the only workaround is to migrate it to a parent type issue, migrate to the correct project, then migrate back to a subtask, is this correct?

[Ramiro Pointis]

Mmh... It looks like a bug. A possible workaround could be to clone the subtask to the parent in the new project. Or moving to other parent and then move to the real one.

[Ramiro Pointis]

I though about it but I'm not finding how to migrate back to a subtask, did you found out how to?

[Molly Favret]

This issue is marked as resolved, but not sure that seems like a great solution! Regardless. thanks for your help!

[Ramiro Pointis]

And just in case, most of the users of the Atlassian Answers aren't from Atlassian. We can only give tips or workaround or advice. If you want a change in the Jira you need to create a support issue on support.atlassian.com

Cheers!

[Ramiro Pointis]

You have to mark as answered in the right corner of the answer, the check button.

[Ramiro Pointis]

Yes, that will be the best workaround. Has it worked?

[John Minne]

I tried to move subtasks along with their parents and Jira tried to keep the sub-tasks in the original Project.

To do a bulk move and get the subtasks moved I had to:

1) update the filter with "AND type != Subtask"

2) Go through the Move wizard

3) Subtasks were automatically included and were moved.

[Sudipta Panda]

Above solution works perfectly fine.

Regards

Sudipta

[Benson]

Hi @John Minne , I tried the above steps, and moved to new project. the parent sub-task relationship is perfect, but the time log entered on the sub-task didn't get migrated. Has anyone come across such situation?

[Vladislav]

Thanks a lot for that advise @John Minne 

It works perfectly as expected!