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How do you clone multiple stories?

Jason McCue1

We want to clone a series of stories all at the same time. Is there a way to do this through JIRA?

Example is:

- We have 20 stories associated with each new project.

- We want to be able to use the old 20 stories (for a previous project) but with the new project name.

- If there are other ways besides cloning - like batch story creation - that would be great as well.

Thanks,

Jason

Accepted answers

Bob Swift

You can't clone to another project without a plugin like Clone Plus Plugin for JIRA (not available with OnDemand). However, you can create issues via JIRA Command Line Interface using createIssue. See also How to create projects or sets of issues based on a template.

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Paul Alexander

No default means through the 0n-Demand infrastructure.

But, I bet a simple request through your Atlassian support channel could tackle the work for you at the db level. Don't quote me;).

David Chan

There's not bulk operation for cloning in JIRA's interface, but you can do a search via the issue navigator and use the gear icon to clone each ticket.

It's not the most ideal, but it's faster than opening each individual ticket.

Bob Swift

Andrej Kvasnica

You can use BulkClone free plugin https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.lbcg.jira.plugins.bulkclone.BulkClone

Paul Alexander

Future plans to provide this within the On-Demand framework, Andrej?

Dov Cohn

+1 for Atlassian cloud support

essam

Or you can export all the fields to CSV file, and then import them again

Rudy Holtkamp

That's not free anymore

dimpy panwar

Can the stories be cloned to next sprint? Instead of moving them to next sprint i want to create a duplicate story , will cloning work for this?

Toby Moore_v50vis

hey dimpy, why would you want to do that? there may be another way to get what you're after, sorry this reply is so slow!

Ted H

Can you expand on this? Looking to clone an Epic with multiple stories attached. Could we export an Epics data with attached stories and import to create a new epic with stories attached?

We are using the cloud based product.

Toby Moore_v50vis

I think what hes saying is, if you use the JQL "Epic Link" = aa-123 to find you epic, click the download button and export the full results to a CSV. you can then go "issues > more > ... > import issues from CSV" and use your downloaded file to create a bunch of new issues matching the originals

Ive never tried this so you may have to play about with the downloaded CSV to get the right setup (removing the issue key column for instance). The link below should help with that.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/creating-issues-using-the-csv-importer-764478441.html

Max Diener

Hi Toby,

I tried the download method you suggested, but I am only seeing the option to download as XML (or Word doc, weirdly enough). Any idea of how to download directly as a CSV?

Thanks!

Marlene Kegel - codefortynine

For Jira Cloud we released an app that makes that possible.

With Deep Clone for Jira you can Bulk Clone and move hundreds of issues in one action.

You just have to filter for the issues you want to copy and then use the Bulk Clone function.

Kirsten Dalton

Hi, does this copy across the Xray test steps as well?

Marlene Kegel - codefortynine

Welcome to the community, @Kirsten Dalton.

Unfortunately Xray is currently not supported by Deep Clone.

Feel free to contact our support and share your use case with us. This helps us to prioritize.

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Update 2022-05-02: Good news! It is now possible to clone Xray tests with manual test steps with Deep Clone for Jira.

Update 2022-05-31: "Generic" and "cucumber" test details can now also be cloned.

Rogério Paiva - Xray Xporter

Hi @Kirsten Dalton

Xray has a few options to export/import Test Steps, like the ones described in the two documentation articles below:

Test Steps Import Steps

Export and import tests: Cloud-Cloud

If you need further help, please contact the Xray Support (http://xraysupport.xpand-it.com) so that we can request additional information and investigate further.

Kind regards,
Rogério Paiva [Xray Support Team]

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