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create multiple issues from table and assign parent Epic

Jürgen Wieser_mvvgsl

I want to create multiple jira issues from a confluence table as tasks and assign them to an existing parent Epic.

I know that this worked a while ago, but I recognize that Atlassian something might have changed.

I have linked an EPIC issue in the confluence page, but the configuration popup does not provide any selection of the epic.

Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong here?

regards

Jürgen

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Tomislav Tobijas

Hi @Jürgen Wieser ,

I know that you should be able to add/change a lot of different values when you edit issues 1-by-1. For example, once you select the table, you should be able to see the list of issues that are about to be generated and then you can configure values, including Epic/Parent for each.

Are you saying that you used to be able to select parent/Epic for all issues simultaneously, without having to edit them one by one?

I know there are some open suggestions on the topic, so you might want to check those out as well.

Cheers,
Tobi

Jürgen Wieser_mvvgsl

What is the advantage if I need to configure issue creation on issue level? For that I can open the respective jira project and add issue by issue. I want to create issues from table to be able to create a larger number of issues at once!. It was a nice feature to place the parent in the page and then have the ability to select this issue as parent for all items in the table.

Tomislav Tobijas

@Jürgen Wieser yeah - I see the pain point with this 1-by-1 approach. Especially as it was possible to 'bulk set' Epic for all issues in the table. I know there were some changes to this feature, including updates to UI part.

I've asked the Atlassian Support team for assistance here > to review the question (should get back to you in a day or two), so they might share some additional light on the feature itself. 👀

If that's something that was removed in recent updates, I would also highly prefer to have that option back as I believe some of our clients did use it.

Jessica_j1vjtw

Hi @Jürgen Wieser

There was some changes to the creation of jira issues indeed, and we are planning to support bulk-setting issue fields, but this is something not available yet.

If this is crucial for you to have this option available, we might be able to request with our internal teams to reenable the legacy experience for you and see if it works as you used to work with, until these options in the current experience is available.

Regards,
Jessica

Jürgen Wieser_mvvgsl

Hi Jessica,

thanks for your reply. My current workaround is to export the table as cab (also a new nice feature) and then bulk import. Since it is always the same type of table, with the use of the configuration file, this method works for the moment. However this is also a little of a pain for a standard user.

Jessica_j1vjtw

Hi @Jürgen Wieser

Got it!
If you prefer to have the legacy experience in case the workaround is not the ideal for you until the support for the bulk-setting issue fields is available in the new experience, let me know so we can ask internally to have it switched on your site.

You won't be able to use the new experience though until then, so in case you use the new experience you are using now and the workaround suffice the configuration in bulk, that would be better to wait for the bulk-setting issue fields to be supported.

If you have any questions or want to have the legacy experience, let me know!

Cheers,
Jessica

Leanne Johnson_3o3bf6

We used this feature when asking employees to create their own epic and then assign their tasks for annual training efforts - it was simple to provide instructions, as the ability to assign all the tasks in a table to the epic on the page was right there when you started creating multiple issues. This was super helpful for folks that aren't daily jira users.

do we have a timeline when this, or something similar, will be reinstated? i see @Jessica said it was not available yet, just wondering when it might be.

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