Linking several issues to another one in bulk

[Veronika]

Hi community, 

please, help me to understand how to bulk link issues to another one.
Currently, I can only do it one by one.

[Hans Polder]

@Veronika ,

Your best bet would be to do it through usage of Automation. See documentation here: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/branch-automation-rules-to-perform-actions-on-related-issues/

Basically, you could create an Automation Rule on a Scheduled trigger (which you can also trigger manually to run right now), search for a set of issues that it has to process, and then use the branch functionality to do certain actions.

Please try this out and let us know if you have any questions. If so, please do share screenshots of what you've tried/accomplished and a bit more context please :)

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Veronika

just to add to Hans' answer:

If you'd prefer a more interactive solution and are open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may like 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 - including your issues' issue links - much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets.

It also supports inline bulk editing via copy/paste, like so:

This works within JXL, but also between JXL and pretty much any other app, such as Excel or Google Sheets. You can update any number of issues in one action - so whatever bulk editing you want to do, you should be done with your work in no time.

I should also add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies, to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes