Create issue in epic opens pop up to create new epic, doesn't link

[Daniel Johnson]

On a Kanban board with a backlog and epics pane when you expand an epic it gives you an option to "Create issue in epic." I would imagine the expected behavior to be to open a pop up that creates either a new story, task, or bug that is linked to that epic. However, when I click the "Create issue in epic" link the issue type selected is Epic. When I change it to anything else the Epic Link dropdown doesn't have an epic chosen. So, what's the point of the "Create issue in epic" link if I still have to fill in which epic the new issue is linked to?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Daniel Johnson 

I observe the same behavior. However, when I go through with creating the issue (in the same project as the Epic) and I leave the Epic Link field blank, the issue is still actually created as a child of the specified Epic. This was in a Company Managed Software project.

I have done a quick look for an issue in Atlassian's backlog for this, but have not yet found one.

https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%3Djswcloud%20and%20summary~%22create%20issue%20in%20epic%22%20and%20description~%22epic%20link%22

[Daniel Johnson]

Thanks for that tip @Trudy Claspill ! Leaving the Epic Link field blank worked for me too.