How to UNLINK Epic from Epic

[Tomasz_Trejderowski]

By definition, you cannot link an Epic to another Epic.

However, there's a bug in most recent version of Jira Cloud that in fact allows you to do this.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create an Epic.
2. Create one or more Story or Task within it. Make sure they're linked to Epic.
3. Convert this Story / Task into Epic.

Jira should invalidate relation when changing Story or Task to an Epic, but due to bug it don't do this.

The question is, how can I work-around this problem?

When I edit ticket, I cannot unlink because I see "An Epic cannot be linked to another Epic" error instead of edit field.

Converting linked Epic back to Task or Story and then unlinking it is not an option because linked Epics already contain a lot of connections and relations to their own Story and Task tickets and all these connections will be lost during conversion.

Do I have any other options?

[Andrew Lee]

Not sure if you still need help with this, but I had a similar scenario come up for me, and found your question here when looking for the same answer. 

I took the sub-epic, moved it to a story, removed the feature link, then moved it back to an epic. That removed all stories from the sub-epic, and make sure to save the info that changes between the moves, but it worked for me. 

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Tomasz_Trejderowski

welcome to the Community. I am unable to reproduce this issue. Can you explain more on this? Can you provide some screenshots that demonstrate where is the link between Epics exists?

[Tomasz_Trejderowski]

Sorry, I cannot provide any screenshots, because I have already hand-solved this problem (it was a big issue for me). Issue resolved

Surely, you should be able to replicate this problem by adding some Stories to any Epic and then turning these Stories into Epics.

But, as I just said, this is a off-topic notice as the issue is resolved for me.

[Jack Brickey]

i was not able to reproduce using the following steps:

• start with a story linked to an epic1
• used the Move operation to move one of the stories to create a new epic (epic2)
• Epic2 shows no signs of being linked to Epic1 nor does Epic1 illustrate any connectivity to Epic2

Please share what you were seeing. If this is happening we should reach out to Atlassian Support to let them know.

[Tomasz_Trejderowski]

You DO NOT move Story into another Epic. You keep that story within current Epic and only change its type into Epic.

http://onezeronull.com/2020/02/12/how-to-unlink-epic-from-epic-in-jira-cloud/