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Parent field for linking sub-tasks to Story/Task

Randy_Elias

Hi All,

I have a situation where I want to import a massive set of sub-tasks (via CSV file) into JIRA. During the import I'd like to link each sub-task to an existing standard issue (story/task). Is there a field in the sub-task similar to the "Epic Link" field for story/task?

For various reasons, I need to use story/task as the parent issue.

Thanks,

Randy

Accepted answers

Tarun Sapra

Yes, it's doable, you add a column for issue id and add the existing issueKey in CSV so that while importing the issues, all the issues become sub-tasks for the existing issue.

Possible duplicate - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/CSV-Importing-of-sub-tasks-and-linking-to-existing-Story/qaq-p/224226

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Tarun Sapra

Yes, it's doable, you add a column for issue id and add the existing issueKey in CSV so that while importing the issues, all the issues become sub-tasks for the existing issue.

Possible duplicate - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/CSV-Importing-of-sub-tasks-and-linking-to-existing-Story/qaq-p/224226

Randy_Elias

Hi Tarun,

Thanks for the tip!

I was able to successfully upload the CSV using an empty Issue Id field and parent Id (issue key of parent story). I confirmed it created the subtask under the story as needed.

However, I got the following errors after the import:

Import completed with 14 errors:

Error importing issue [externalId='autoid-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', summary='null']

Any ideas what these errors mean?

Thanks,

Randy

Randy_Elias

Please disregard.

I had extra junkin the CSV file that caused the errors!

Thanks,

Randy

Tarun Sapra

Please accept/upvote the answer if it works for you. thanks.

Yuta Nagano_pakr53

@Tarun Sapra and @Randy_Elias I tried the method you described above and I couldn't get my sub-tasks to link to their parent tasks. I added a new column labeled, "Parent Link" since their is a field called Parent Link that you can import to when importing a CSV file of tasks. In that new Parent Link column I added I typed in the story ID for each one. However, there is no association being created... I think I am misunderstanding the instructions above as well as the instructions referenced in the answer from Tarun. My apologies! Is there a screenshot you can share?

Here is a screenshot of my file:

Parent Link.png

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