Removing the Epic option when using the "Create issue in Epic" feature

[Heather Rimmey]

Does anyone know if it's possible to prevent the Epic Issue Type from being displayed when creating a new issue via the "Create Issue in Epic" feature (from either Backlog view or ticket view)? We have a lot of newbies to jira so guiding them down a proper selection path would be super helpful!

 

[Jan]

Heather you may be able to use properties on the workflow creation step to limit who is able to create Epic issues. Some documentation for that is here: https://www.j-tricks.com/tutorials/permissions-based-on-workflow-status

[Heather Rimmey]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'd like to try and avoid workflow control though since we have different ones by issue type.

[Jack Brickey]

@Heather Rimmey, are you asking how do you remove the "Epic" issue type from displaying in the "Issue Type" drop down? If so here is how (in cloud, server will be slightly different)...

Project > project settings > issue types > Actions button > edit issue types then move Epic out of the list. 

IMPORTANT: if this is a shared issue type scheme then I recommend you create a new scheme (copy the current one) edit it and switch schemes w/ the current project. This to avoid removing Epic from projects that still want it. :-)

[Heather Rimmey]

Thanks Jack! My question is for the server version and I actually only want to HIDE the "Epic" issue type IF using the "Create Issue in epic" action.

The Epic issue type needs to be available in the project itself, but it should not be offered in this situation. It just doesn't make sense to create an Epic within an Epic and Jira does not even allow it - a new standalone epic just gets created.

I think the hiding of an Epic for issue type selection should just be built into the "Create Issue in epic" feature.

[Volker Gimple]

+1...

In case you've found a solution to that I'd be rather interested. I am trying to achieve the same with the issue type "Bug" in the "Create Issue in Epic" type selection...

[Heather Rimmey]

Unfortunately, I have not found a solution yet. Will let you know if I do!

[Volker Gimple]

Hey Heather,

many thanks for your reply! Actually the Epic is gone in the combo box:

The embarrassing bit is: I have absolutely no idea how. I did play around quite a lot with the different options, setting up project-specific schemes for almost anything - no idea if I accidentally pushed right button or if it actually is something that Atlassian changed over the past few days. But as it is, I don't have that issue any more :-)

[Heather Rimmey]

Interesting! are you on the Cloud version?

[Volker Gimple]

Yes, it's Jira Cloud.