How to delete linked issues associated to an EPIC?

Question

Hi All,

Do we have an option or any condition to be set, to delete all issues linked to an Epic whilst deleting an EPIC.

To delete an Epic, I simply access the EPIC screen and go to More > Delete. But this doesn't deletes issues associated to it

Please advise.

Regards,

Mohamed.

Adam Stein · Answer

You don't really need to craft a query or filter for this. Just view the epic and then click the "..." menu above child issues and select bulk edit.

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Mohamed Ghayasuddin   Welcome to the community!

A variation on what @Alexey Matveev is suggesting is to filter for the linked issues and epic at one time, and then use bulk edit to delete them.  A query to select them would be:

project = YOUR-PROJECT
 AND "Epic Link" = YOUR-EPIC-KEY
 OR Key = YOUR-EPIC-KEY
 ORDER BY Key

With bulk operations, verify you see what you expect before confirming the operation...especially delete.

Best regards,

Bill

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Otherwise you would need an app like Power Scripts, ScriptRunner, Automation for JIra to do it automatically.

If you want to use the Power Scripts app, then you could create a listener on the Delete Issue event with a code like this:

string keys = selectIssues("\"Epic Link\" = "  + k);

for (string k in keys) {

deleteIssue(k);

}

In this case if you delete an Epic. all issues in the epic will be deleted automatically.