Updating Epic Link in Bulk Edit on Team Project - No Epics Listed

Question

I am importing multiple stories into my team managed project. Since I cannot add the Epic Link in the import, I'm trying to first import the stories and then use bulk edit to assign these stories to an epic.

But when I use the Bulk Edit tool and select Change Epic Link, no epics are found. I tried manually typing in the epic name and the epic key and it says the epic doesn't exist. But I triple verified the epic exists under the same project. I validated that all the stories I'm trying to update are actually story issue types.  I can open these same stories individually and add the epic but it won't recognize any valid epics in the bulk importer.

I also tried using Parent ID and there's a message that says to use Epic Link.

Simon Smith_998f2j · Answer

I came across this looking for an answer to the same issue.    On the bulk change edit screen, go to the bottom of the window and see if there is an "unavailable options" drop down.

For me the Change Parent was in there and I couldn't change it because all of the items I had selected for bulk change were not on the same level - i.e. some were already children.

Go back to the main issue screen and add the Parent filter, then add 'No Parent' and do the bulk edit.  You should now be able to see the Change Parent drop down with all your epics in it.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

I found a Premium system to test this out. There I set up a Team Managed Software project and created one Epic, one Task, and one Subtask.

I did a search for the Task issue and then selected the Bulk Change > Edit options.

I found all three fields listed in the Edit screen in Bulk Change:

* Parent
* Parent Link
* Epic Link

Trying to use the Epic Link field in a Team Managed project will not work, because Team Managed projects never used the Epic Link field. The message you see when touching the Parent Link field is misleading, specifically for Team Managed projects.

Team Managed projects always used the Parent field to note the parent Epic of an issue. To set the parent Epic of a Team Managed standard level issue in Bulk Change you need to update the "Parent" field specifically

Can you find an option in your screen for "Change Parent" vs. "Change Parent Link"

Lisa Scannell · Answer

I just included the first screen shot to show that I did have an epic set up, as example SOM-10.  I was then doing a bulk edit of 5 stories and trying to assign them to epic SOM-10, but JIRA tells me SOM-10 does not exist (see screen shot 3).

I had also seen some comments to use parent link instead but I have the same problem in that field.