How do you remove a closed JIRA epic for the list of Epic links?

[Paul White]

I read the similar questions and work around from 2 years ago but no solution has been proposed.  This is still very annoying to my team as we work through several closed Epics.  The list will continue to grow as we go froward and will become even more annoying.  Once the Epic is closed (and all related stories closed), how do we not see that Epic link when creating a new story?

We have reasons for keeping all closed stories and epics avail and the copy it off to a backup workaround is not acceptable to our team.  Thank you very much.

[Marco Brizi]

I've created a plugin with several workflow plugins for subtasks.
https://bitbucket.org/mbrizi/jira-plugins/raw/908616ebe2bc/ugov-jira-subtask-plugin/target/ugov-jira-subtask-plugin-1.4.2.jar
<label for="it.cineca.jira.plugin.ugov-jira-subtask-plugin:transitionparentissue-function"></label>

You can use the "Transition Parent Issue Function" and specify the transition id for the parent issue workflow.
I hope it helps.

[Radu Dumitriu]

There are already a number of plugins to help you do that:

https://plugins.atlassian.com/search/with?q=scripting&product=all

Eva Lee is right, but they will spare you to dig too much in JIRA.

[Eva]

The only way I can think of at the moment is to create a post-function plugin where it reopen the main task for you, similar to the existing post-function where it close teh parent when the subtask is closed. I dont think you can do it any other way than customize plugin