Bulk editing issue types

Question

I have a couple of issue types which are no longer needed. Before I delete these, I need to move several issues with these types to another type, but cannot do this due to no components being present on the issues. Has anyone experienced this? Thanks.

Sarah Hughes · Answer

Thanks, I will have a go at this. It's not a single project affected though, it's about 20.

Alex Christensen · Answer

You should be able to add/remove components in bulk, just like you would need to change the issue type for all of them. If possible, I would just add one component to the project, bulk add the component to all of the issues you want to change the issue type on, bulk change the issue type, then bulk remove the component (or just delete the component at the project level).

I think that should work for you, but I'm also assuming all of your issues are in a single project. :)  Hope this solution works for you!

Sarah Hughes · Answer

Hi Alex,

Yes, that describes the issue exactly!

I have tried adding a component to a project and this seems to work - the problem is that I have lots of projects affected so this is going to be quite a big job to add components to each one. I'll see if this is a worthwhile exercise!

Thanks.