Test cases importer, Link "test" to multiple issues

[Mohammad Aamir]

I am trying to upload Test in Jira using test case importer tool, Aim is to link one test cases with multiple existing issues (epic and user story) in Jira using Link "tests", tried with below 2 approach.

1) in excel created a column and added multiple issues separated by ",". importer resulted in error.

"errors": [
{
"elementNumber": 0,
"errors": {
"otherErrors": [
"Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it."
]
}
},

2) made 2 columns for 2 different issues to which i want to link this test cases but when i am trying to map both these fields using Link "tests", it only allows me to map to one field

in below screen shot , i want to map my test cases both to "Epic ID" and "User story id" using link "tests".

i am using Jira-Xray-Cloud deployment.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not that I'm aware of - the point of the excel download is that it exports a filter result. There's no pagination in a list of issues. But you're then running into the "only allow 1000 issues as more starts to overload the Jira server" limit.

This really does beg the question - what on earth do you need 25000 issues in a spreadsheet for? I can be pretty sure that there's a much better way to do what you think you need Excel for.

[DeepakBhatia]

But say for example I have 3000 issues and I am 2nd page say from 1001 to 2000. Then issues doesn't download from 1001 to 2000, they always download from 1 to 1000.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that's because the download is exporting a filter result. Your filter returns 25k issues, so it's exporting them one at a time. But then you run into the 1000 limit and it stops.

My point is that the download is NOT done in pages (because the filter isn't), so I don't think there's any way to say "download issues from 3000 to 4000" - it's trying to do the whole lot, every time.

Seriously - why are you trying to do this though? If you told us what problem you're trying to solve, we may have a better option than "arbitrarily huge download that probably won't work"