Can you have a set template of Child Tasks when creating an Epic?

Stephen Thurgood

Me and my team are using Jira to manage patches in epics and for the most part, the child issues are the same for each patch. It's very long winded having to create 4-5 child tasks for every patch we have. Is there a way to create a "template" so when an epic is created, it'll automatically add the child tasks?

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Stephen, 

Welcome to Atlassian community!

Using only JIRA application, there are some options you can perform to achieve something similar to issue templates:

1 - Create an Epic + Child issues to be used as a template. Once you need to create new Epic and Child issues, navigate to the template Epic and the related child issues and click to Clone it:

 

2 - Create custom issue types to be used as child issues. For these issue types screens, create and add custom fields with all the information you need, where you can set the template information as Default values.

Performing these steps, every time you create an issue of that specific issue type, the default values will be automatically added to the issue fields.

To know how you can create custom issue types and configure its screens, check the documentation below:

- Configuring custom issue types

- Associating screen and issue operation mappings with an issue type

To know how you can create custom fields and configure default values, check the documentation below:

- Configuring a custom field

 

3 - Additionally, there's also a third-party App that you can use to configure issue templates:

Issue Templates for Jira

Let me know if this information helps.