How do you convert a task with subtasks to an epic with issues?

[Kelly Johnson]

I have a task with 7 sub-tasks. It turns out that the scope is now too big for one sprint. I need to convert the task into an epic, with each sub task being a task on that epic. Sounds like a totally resonable thing, right? How do you do it?

[Ignacio Pulgar]

Hi Kelly,

The subtasks need to be converted to tasks first. To do so, enter the subtask's detailed view, and then click on More > Convert to issue. Depending on the JIRA version, it might be displayed an ellypsis [...] button instead of the More button.

Once all subtasks had been converted into tasks, enter the task that you'd like to convert into an epic and click on More > Move. Leave the project unchanged and just change the type from task to epic.

Finally, associate the tasks with the epic.

[Kelly Johnson]

Obviouslly you can manually, painstakingly do all these things. That's not the question. This should be a normal workflow. I'm looking for a button that moves an issue to epic and automatically upgrades and accociates it's sub-tasks.

[Bernardo]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-efficiently-migrate-issue-subtasks-to-epic-issues/qaq-p/623209

[Bernardo]

I guess u already found a solution already :p

I just run into the same situation as you and found a more straight forward way to do it, maybe useful for others 

[Anil Manohar Mohapatra]

Thank you team for solving the same