Linking Issue

[Swati Verma]

I want to link my design with test through "is tested by" which is an inward link, I like to acheive this through "import". However I dont see "is tested by" while I am uploading although I have this in my linking issue.

Please help, screenshots are attached below.

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Swati Verma

if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also allows bulk editing all your issue fields - including your issues' issue links - via copy/paste. 

This is how it looks in action:

This works within JXL, but also between JXL and pretty much any other app, including Excel or Google Sheets. So assuming that you could get your data into the required format, you could simply copy/paste into your issues as shown above. This would work for inward links as well as outward links.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Vikrant Yadav]

Hi @Swati Verma Via CSV import only Outward linking is possible. 

Issue is already open with Atlassain : https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-82007 

Via API you can update inwards and outward linking  of the issues in Bulk 

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-links/#api-rest-api-3-issuelink-post

For this you need postman to attach csv file and run collection to update issue linking for all the issues in one go. 

Let me know, if you need any help in updating issues in bulk via API using Postman application. 

Thanks

Vikrant Yadav 

[Swati Verma]

Hi Vikrant,

 Thanks for your response. I am never worked with postman and I see in the link there is coding, I donot understand how to perform this.

is there any video which I can watch and follow the process?

[Swati Verma]

or if there is any other way to change the link type in jira?

[Mikael Sandberg]

What you see during import is the name of the link, not the outward/inward names. So in this case you should select Link "Test".

[Swati Verma]

yes, I selected the test and automatically it is linking outward

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