Need groovy code to clone and link issues between projects

Question

I have three projects A, B, and C. Project A has 100 standard issues. So project C is masters project. So, I need a groovy code to clone 100 Standard issues from Project A to Project B and then link those 100 cloned issues to each issue being created in project C.

Appreciate your help and Thank you!

Matt Parks · Answer

This is code that I wrote to do something similar. Our Information Security team has a number of different applications that they perform maintenance on on a scheduled basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly). They have created template epics with stories underneath. The different template epics are hard-coded into the script. The script goes through each template epic, creates a new epic (copying certain fields from the template epic) and makes separate copies of all of the stories under the template epic and links them to the newly created epic. You would basically need to get a list of the 100 standard issues from Project C. Then cycle through those issues, creating one story under Project A and another under Project B and linking them together (I think you can do the link on the second story after creating the first). Obviously, my code doesn't do EXACTLY what you need, but I think it should be pretty easy to make a few updates to get it to copy the fields you care about and create the link (you'll need to use the IssueLinkManager class to create the link, I believe). import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser import com.atlassian.jira.jql.parser.JqlQueryParser import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue import groovy.transform.Field import com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.search.SearchService import com.atlassian.jira.web.bean.PagerFilter import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField @Field SearchService searchService = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchService.class) Collection epicKeyList = ["{epic key 1}", "{epic key 2}"] def issueMan = ComponentAccessor.issueManager def userMan = ComponentAccessor.userManager def issueFactory = ComponentAccessor.issueFactory ApplicationUser user = userMan.getUserByName("ITWorkTracking") as ApplicationUser def teamField = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectsByName('Team').first() def epicNameField = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectsByName('Epic Name').first() def epicLinkField = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectsByName('Epic Link').first() epicKeyList.each { MutableIssue epicIssue = issueMan.getIssueByCurrentKey(it) as MutableIssue def teamFieldValue = epicIssue.getCustomFieldValue(teamField) def epicLinkValue = epicIssue.summary MutableIssue newEpic = issueFactory.getIssue() newEpic.setSummary(epicIssue.summary) newEpic.setDescription(epicIssue.description) newEpic.setProjectObject(epicIssue.getProjectObject()) newEpic.setIssueTypeId(epicIssue.getIssueTypeId()) newEpic.setCustomFieldValue(teamField, teamFieldValue) newEpic.setPriority(epicIssue.getPriority()) newEpic.setLabels(epicIssue.getLabels()) newEpic.setCustomFieldValue(teamField, teamFieldValue) newEpic.setCustomFieldValue(epicNameField, epicLinkValue) issueMan.createIssueObject(user, newEpic) def issues = getTemplateEpicIssues(it, user) //get a list of issues from the template Epic that will be cloned issues.each { teamFieldValue = it.getCustomFieldValue(teamField) MutableIssue newStory = issueFactory.getIssue() newStory.setSummary(it.summary) newStory.setDescription(it.description) newStory.setProjectObject(it.getProjectObject()) newStory.setIssueTypeId(it.getIssueTypeId()) newStory.setCustomFieldValue(teamField, teamFieldValue) newStory.setCustomFieldValue(epicLinkField, newEpic) newStory.setPriority(it.getPriority()) issueMan.createIssueObject(user, newStory) } } List getTemplateEpicIssues(String epicKey, ApplicationUser user) { def jqlQueryParser = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(JqlQueryParser) def childrenQuery = jqlQueryParser.parseQuery(""" issuefunction in issuesInEpics("key = ${epicKey}") ORDER BY Created ASC""") def children = searchService.search(user, childrenQuery, PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter()) return children.getResults() }