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Bulk Action Link

Evan Cutler1

Greetings, I have 100+ Defect JIRA issues I want to link to a Single output Build Issue. I've been reading up on Bulk Actions, but I don't see a Bulk Link Action.

help?

Thanks

Accepted answers

Renjith Pillai

For linking, you need not go via the bulk action. Instead, open that one single issue, select 'Link Issue' from More Actions and paste all the 100+ issue keys in that edit box and submit.

In order to quickly get you that 100+ issues as one text field, you could export that list from Jira to excel, copy the issue-link column, paste in a good text editor and replace newline with comma.

Bill Miller

Here's my solution...

Using Jira Cloud...

Find the Issues you want to bulk link to another issue
Click Advanced query. Copy the JQL statement. (e.g.: project = MNS AND status = DONE AND assignee in (dcmiller13) )
Find the issue you want to link to. Click Link, pick the Link type, then --> Search for an Issue --> Advanced.
Paste the JQL. Click the top checkbox to select all.

All comments

Renjith Pillai

For linking, you need not go via the bulk action. Instead, open that one single issue, select 'Link Issue' from More Actions and paste all the 100+ issue keys in that edit box and submit.

In order to quickly get you that 100+ issues as one text field, you could export that list from Jira to excel, copy the issue-link column, paste in a good text editor and replace newline with comma.

Thomas Schlegel

Bulk linking is not (yet) possible. it's an old issue, see https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-2428

Only workarounds like the one mentioned by Renjith are possible

Best regards

Thomas

Stefan Niederma

i can click "search issue" - but if i wanna go to the advanced search, there is a notice, that the auto complete is loading, and then the pop-up closes. so i can't do anythin.

has anyone an idea what could cause the problem (no javascript exception, nothing special at jira log file) or has anyone another workaround to link all issues from a filter to a single other issue?

Martin Hinge

Hi Renjith

I tried following your instructions but it didn't get me anywhere. Whenever I tried pasting 87 issues as a comma separated string it would br parsed as a one issue and would not work.

What you have to do is paste is with the newline in it - do not replace with comma..

I'm on Jira 5.2.7

Stefan Egli

It does not seem to work with commas anymore, but it works fine if you have spaces.

If your issues are visible in an Agile Board you can select them and use the context menu to see them in the Issue Navigator. If you do this, you will get a query of the form "issueKey in (...)". Thus you have a comma separated lists of the issue keys and you just need to remove the comma.

Latha2

Hi,

How can we do bulk remove links for issues in JIRA?

Thanks in advance for any solution.

Regards,

Latha

David Tombs

In the "Add Link" dialog's search function, you can return and multi-select issues to link to the item.jira_link_multiselect.png

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Faizan Farooq

This sounds good but how do you bulk unlink them?

MattS

Spaces between issue keys didn't work for me in 6.4, nor newlines. But you can do a search in the Link popup and get the issues that way with Advanced Search. Just as David says below.

Eitan Gur

Go to parent issue à More à Link
Define the link type
Paste into the "Issue" field your list of issue keys separated by space and just click on the area outside of the text box
The system will process and accept each key as a separate issue
Press Alt+s to submit

Geoff Wilson

the only problem with this seems to be that it limits how many results are returned to 10 which is not helpful for the OP's scenario (nor mine), but is useful to know of this approach (using a JQL query to get a list of issues for linking)

Andrea Kelley

Does anyone have a better way to bulk link more than 10 issues to another issue?

Fernando Llaca Romero

By using this free plugin I made (Easy Links for JIRA) you can create a custom field that represents an issue link type (for example: "is blocked by"). This custom field looks like a dropdown issue select list that autocompletes as you type in but, when you set the value, the plugin will create behind the scenes a regular JIRA issue link using that value. You can use this plugin in bulk edition (so you can bulk create and/or remove issue links).

It also gives you other features, like using the "Link" custom field in gadgets, dashboards and JQL.

Hope it helps!

Best regards,

Fernando

Fernando Llaca Romero

Hi Andrea,

please check out my answer to this question, I think it may help you: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40224

Regards!

Fernando

Fernando Llaca Romero

Hi!

with the plugin I made (Easy Links for JIRA) you can bulk link and/or unlink issues. Check out my answer: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40224.

Regards!

Fernando

priyanka ghongade

Can we perform "Bulk Edit" operation on security level?

Yash Ruparel

Renjith's method worked for me. All i did was got the list of issues which i need to update, exported to csv, copied the keys and pasted it in linked issue and ta-da! THANKS Renjith

Patrick Gray_i71rio

It's 2018 and we still can't bulk link through the web. Wow.

Bill Miller

Here's my solution...

Using Jira Cloud...

Find the Issues you want to bulk link to another issue
Click Advanced query. Copy the JQL statement. (e.g.: project = MNS AND status = DONE AND assignee in (dcmiller13) )
Find the issue you want to link to. Click Link, pick the Link type, then --> Search for an Issue --> Advanced.
Paste the JQL. Click the top checkbox to select all.

Tyler Quillen

This is only a partial solution, as you will only have a max of 10 issues returned from the search.

ribailey

Easiest to export to csv and import to google sheet. then use =join(" ",A2:A) to turn into a string in a cell. and copy that to jira.

Yaron Azar

WORKS!!! for Jira 7.7

linked over 100 in single action and over 500 in total.

Thanks

Anne C

My company also looking for the same.

There should be bulk operations for both:

> link issues

> delete link issues

Breno Lima

This is Atlassian..

Lauren Andersen

Yes, it works! THANK YOU!!!

Laura Murphy_c23lec

I was only able to see this option when in Old View, but it worked then.

Airam Gibson

It's 2019 and we still can't bulk link through the web. Wow.

Paul_Sorauer

This is Atlassian..

Kelly Buchanan

You can add to the end of your query a condition for "and not already linked" using the linkedIssues function:

[query for issues you want to link] and Issue not in linkedIssues([key for issue you are linking to])

You can run that repeatedly to link 10 at a time.

This is the best solution imho. I cannot easily convert jql results to issue keys with spaces, but I can query for everything I want to link. If someone has a way to generate keys with spaces easily then possibly the accepted solution would be more useful.

Karla P Davenport

You can link 50 issues at a time by opening the parent issue in edit. Scroll down to the link and click the + sign. If you searched for the issues and have the list on screen prior to editing the parent issue, select the recent issues radio button, or you can select from filter radio button in the pop-up dialogue box. Select the individual issues or click the select multiple issue button at the top of the screen. Check off those to link to the parent issue. Shift-click for the whole list will work. Scroll to the bottom and link.

Andrews_iqbso0

Hi @Fernando Llaca Romero

Recently we have upgraded JIRA from v7.9.2 to v8.2.4 but the easy links add on is not compatible with v8.

I have checked in the marketplace but the add-on does not appear.

Is there any similar add-on to use like easy links? Or your team will upgrade this plugin to compatible with Jira v8?

Regards,

Andrews

Andrews_iqbso0

Hi @Fernando Llaca Romero

Recently we have upgraded JIRA from v7.9.2 to v8.2.4 but the easy links add on is not compatible with v8.

I have checked in the marketplace but the add-on does not appear.

Is there any similar add-on to use like easy links? Or your team will upgrade this plugin to compatible with Jira v8?

Regards,

Andrews

BrianW_wsshpi

This function really should be added to bulk edit! My solution is a little easier for large numbers of tickets (and much easier to repeat) if you can access Jira Automation (formerly Automation for Jira).

Create a new Automation rule with a Manual trigger. (You don't want others running this rule, so restrict it to the highest possible permission group you are a member of).
Add a Branch rule / Related issue, JQL type. Set the JQL to return exactly what tickets you want bulk-linked. Uncheck "Only include issues that have changed since the last time this rule executed" (or check it if you want that for repeated executions).
Add a Link issues Action with the link type you want, and set it to run on the Trigger issue.
Publish the rule and set a name for it like Bulk Link.
Bring up the issue detail page for the issue you want bulk linked to all those tickets, select your new rule in the Automation section, and Run.
Once the rule is run, go back into Automation and disable it so it doesn't get accidentally run in the future (or leave it enabled if you want to do this same operation repeatedly).

Curt Holley

Nice one @BrianW

Mikaela Bertucci

Thanks for this.. I created a rule based on the label changing.. So if the label changes to a value then the linked issue automation runs.

If field Label changes to "GEOBC" then run this jql to look for other issues with the "GEOBC" label and link all of those issues to the trigger issue

Matthew Day_7dgif0

I just tried this using a parentlink in the advanced search, and it returned all the tasks in that epic, but when I tried to link, it just linked the epic, not the tasks. :-/

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Jarosław Solecki [Deviniti]

We created the free plugin for bulk link action after we also struggled with that problem - Issue Link Manager.

I hope for your feedback after trying it.

Best regards,
Jarek

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