How to clone sub-tasks from one story to another story?

Question

Hi All,

I have 4 stories (already created) and I need to add 15 sub-tasks to each of these stories. I was wondering is there a way to clone these sub-tasks to each story? I found few articles about creating story with sub-tasks and then cloning the whole story itself but that's not an option I can use. Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Trudy P Claspill · Accepted Answer

Hello @rsharma2

Welcome to the community.

There is not a native feature specifically for cloning a sub-task into a new parent issue.

I think you could use the Automation feature to Automate creation of those sub-tasks under each story.

Use the LookUp Issues action to get a list of the issues in which you want to create the sub-tasks.

Use a Branch to loop through the issues returned.

Use Actions to create the sub-tasks.

Ste Wright · Accepted Answer

Hi @rsharma2

There's a few alternatives...

If it's a one-off, use CSV Imports...

* Create the CSV, with 4 sets of the Sub-tasks - and import them into Jira (one set per parent Story) or...
* If one Story already has the Sub-tasks, export them as a CSV, duplicate them in Excel and re-upload them per empty Story.

See this help page for more information.

If it's a regular occurrence (i.e every Story created needs the same set of Sub-tasks), use Automation. For example the rule might be...

* Trigger: Issue Created
* Condition: Issue Fields Condition* Issue Type = Story

* Action: Create Issue* Issue Type = Sub-task
* Parent = Trigger Issue
* Populate the fields for Sub-task 1

* Action: Create Issue* Issue Type = Sub-task
* Parent = Trigger Issue
* Populate the fields for Sub-task 2

* ...etc

Using the Automation option, you could copy/create a temporary rule for the existing Stories - for example, change the Trigger to be a Manual Trigger - then activate it for the existing 4 Stories, then just delete that rule.

Let us know if either of these work for you!

Ste