Creating Sub-Tasks to existing issues, including a specific new issue type for the subtasks

[Saint Nick]

Hi all,

I am trying to import many thousands of subtasks to our existing issues.

I have around 1,000 existing issues, and wish to create, en masse, a set of sub tasks for each of those existing issues. Think of the parent issues as Issue Type = Applications and the sub tasks will be test cases which are essentially identical to each other (i.e. Test Case 1 for each application is the same, so I just need to create ~6 subtasks to each of the 1,000 applications, and each 6 is repeated on an application Issue Type basis.

I have fields such as:

Parent ID, Summary, Assignee, Tester

App-1, Test case 1, Bob,  Bob

App-1, Test case 2, Bob,  Bob

App-1, Test case 2, Bob, Bob

App-2, Test case 1, Fred, Fred

App-2, Test case 2, Fred, Fred

Etc etc. The issue I am experiencing is there is no where I can write the sub-task type. I expected ot be able to use the field "Issue Type" and let Jira know which type of sub task I want to create, but this is not possible.

this means every entry import fails to the error:

Issue 'TEST Test Subtask Import 1' doesn't have Subtask Issue Type, its Parent Id mapping will be ignored.

How can I enter a subtask issue type if there is never an option to actually enter this? Is this a Jira admin issue? Or am I missing something? thanks in advance!