Lost all link to children stories

[Monica Gupta]

I moved an Epic to a custom issue type and have lost link to children stories. There were a large number of epics and their children stories as part of the move. I would appreciate any help on this.

[Gokaraju gopi · Accepted solution]

Following answer should help you

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-Server-questions/How-to-restore-Epic-Link-to-Issues/qaq-p/870789

[Monica Gupta]

Thanks for sharing, I could not find the google sheet and the script is too complex

[Gokaraju gopi]

Hi @Monica Gupta 

I think the google sheet was removed. Following should help you

1) First change the custom issue type back to epic

2) Go to history tab of the epic and check which stories are removed from epic. For example in jira cloud it looks like below

3) Write JQL query to get above highlighted issue keys

issueKey in (FP-1, FP-4, FP-5, FP-3)

4) Bulk update those issue by changing the epic field to actual epic

[Vish Reddy {Revyz}]

Hi @Monica Gupta@Gokaraju gopi,

I don't believe there is a clear cut solution in cloud (assuming you are tenant is in the cloud).

One option is to go back to you backup, and get the linking information from there?

Have you taken a backup of your cloud data recently?