How to move issues under epic from one project to another

[abhishek_gupta]

• If you're moving an epic, the Move issue wizard will not move the issues in the epic. The epic and the issues in the epic will still be linked to each other, but the issues in the epic will remain in the original project. 

Is there a way to move the issues under an epic from one project to another project?

[Ste Wright]

Hi @abhishek_gupta 

Is this a Company-managed or Team-managed Project?

If it's Team-managed, the option to "Move child issues" will present itself.

If this is Company-managed though, there isn't this option. This is because unlike Team-managed, Company-managed Projects do not require an Epic and it's children to be in the same Project.

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I'd recommend using "Bulk Change" for Company-managed - to do this:

• Go to Filters > Advanced Issue Search
• Search for the Epic you want to move, and its children - for example...

  • key = ABC-1 OR "Epic Link" = ABC-1

• Once you have the search results, select the Options button (3-dots) icon in the upper-right corner, next to the "Export" button
• Select Bulk Change all Issues
• On the next screen...
  • Step 1: Select all the Issues you wish to Move - you can "select all" using the checkbox in the title row
  • Step 2: Select Move Issues
  • Step 3: 
    • Select the destination Project and Issue Types for each option
    • Scroll through each Issue Type's Field/Status change screens
  • Step 4: Confirm the migration

Once it's complete and acknowledged, the Epic along with its children should all be in the new Project :)

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Let us know if this works for you!

Ste

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @abhishek_gupta Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

When moving an Epic, you have the possibility to also move the issues in the Epic, click on the link Move child issues.

[abhishek_gupta]

Hi Dave

Thanks a lot for your reply. It seems I am not getting the option of "Move Child Issues".

Thanks

Abhishek

[Dave Mathijs]

Do you have the move issues and create issues permission in both the trigger and target project?

[Marlene Kegel - codefortynine]

Welcome to the community, @abhishek_gupta.

If you're open to work with a Marketplace app, you can try Deep Clone for Jira.

With our app you can clone and move epics and larger issue hierarchies between projects. The advantage of cloning is, that you can make sure that no issue data gets lost while migrating the issues between projects. 

In this video you can see how cloning an epic with Deep Clone works.