Why is my epic link field not finding a match?

[Deleted user]

I've been linking epics to my project's tickets fine until now.  All of a sudden it appears only a subset of tickets are being recognized in the dropdown.  I've tried opening the epic to see if it comes up in the recent list, tried typing the name of the epic as well as the id (e.g. MP-95).  

[Fazila Ashraf · Accepted solution]

@[deleted]  , do check whether the missing epic has the 'Epic status' as 'Done'

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver0811/working-with-epic-statuses-1019393039.html

[Gustav Blixt]

We have the same issue here today. All our open epics can't be found when we try to add it to a ticket.

[Fazila Ashraf]

@[deleted]  , @Gustav Blixt  , i am not seeing this issue in my cloud instance but i am seeing other users reporting this -> https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Epic-Link-not-picking-up-epics/qaq-p/1501171#M101762

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