How to unlink issues in bulk?

[Siva Veerla]

Hello Team,

How to unlink issues in bulk?

[Christian]

The easiest way to do this would be through automation. Create an automation with a manual trigger. Create a For Branch, and for types of related issue select "JQL". Use a JQL statement to select the issues you want the links removed from, and then in the branch use the "Delete Links" action to remove the links. 

[Siva Veerla]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the reply, can you please provide a sample automation rule for this.

Regards,

Siva

[Christian]

Hello Siva

The rule would look something like this:

Note: This is just a sample JQL Expression. What you will use will be specific to what issues you to unlink. Make sure you verify you are using the correct JQL expression before running the automation, otherwise you could editing many issues you that you do not intend to edit.

Best,

Christian 

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Siva Veerla

welcome to the community!

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team is working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields - including your issues' issue links - much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. You can also bulk-edit (via copy/paste) and bulk-unset your fields in just a few clicks, like so:

If you only want to work on issue links of a certain issue link type (like for example blocks), you can do that too. I should also add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies, to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes