Can Smart Checklist Items be converted into JIRA Issues Automatically?

[Ronnie Nalls]

Our team has been using a JIRA Smart Checklist for the past 4 years. The Smart Checklist is imported automatically when our EPICs are created. However, we have been manually converting each Smart Checklist item into JIRA issues. Is there a way to automatically create JIRA issues after the Smart Checklist is imported?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Ronnie Nalls 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

What problem are you trying to solve by having both a checklist and Jira issues for each checklist item? Part of the selling point of the checklist is reducing the overhead of managing issues for those item in the list. What value do you gain/add by having both a checklist and issues that have to both be updated?

[Ronnie Nalls]

Hello Trudy, 

Thanks for your response. We use the Smart Checklist to follow our writing processes within our Confluence writing guide. This keeps us from having to search through multiple pages to find the correct instructions. We also attach the appropriate link from the Confluence writing guide to the Smart Checklist item within each EPIC. We convert each Smart Checklist item into a JIRA issue to track priority, due dates, original estimates, documentation, product types, and more. We also assign JIRA issues to internal SMEs across our organization and track the time it takes to complete each task. This data is then captured in a Confluence dashboard for historical reporting.