Need assistance with importing Feature Issuetypes in JIRA via CSV

Question

Our team recently procured JIRA Datacenter 9.14. We have not received formal training but have done a lot of reading and googling and have sucessfully imported Epics, but are having trouble with importing Features linked to those Epics. We consistently receive import errors that say there is an issue with either the Epic Name or Epic Link.

Our file headers are as follows:

Custom Field 1 -> custom field
Component -> component (already added to JIRA)
Epic-> Epic Link (epics already imported into JIRA. Example Epic: ABC. Import file has ABC in the Epic column)
Custom Field 2 -> custom field
Issue Type-> Feature
Summary-> Summary
Custom Field 3-> custom field

All data shown above is importing fine except for the Epic.

These are the errors we receive:

when attempting to map the Epic column -> Epic Link in JIRA...

Cannot add values to CustomField Epic Link in issue with summary "xyz". Exception message: cannot invoke "java.lang.long.longValue" because schemedid is null.

when attempting to map the Epic column -> Epic Name in JIRA...

Cannot set value for locked custom field Epic Name in issue "xyz" becasue its not applicable for Issuetype 'Feature'.

Any help in creating the associating between the Epic and feature via import would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

John Funk · Answer

Great! Glad it worked. Yep, you should be able to!

Lou Gonzalez · Answer

Hi John,

That worked! We added an Epic ID column and linked that to Parent Link. Went in perfectly. Thanks.

So would we use the same technique for linking Tasks to Features?

Parent       Task

ABC-123   Task 1

ABC-123   Task 2

ABC-123   Task 3

Lou Gonzalez · Answer

We'll give this a try and report back. This is our first post, so its good to see how quickly people reply. Thanks so much.