Rules for clone

[Martin Bayreuther]

This is now part 2 of my previous post:

Cloning issues:

We link our issues to a second project that keeps track of submits. Unfortunatly with a clone, everything is cloned, including the link to the original submits. However the whole point of cloning is to allow for a second submit in the next revision (for example if the fix didn't fully solve the problem and a second round of fixing needs to be done). So is there a way to define which fields should not be cloned by "Clone".

[Bob Swift (personal) · Accepted solution]

The JIRA Clone-Plus plugin has options to exclude fields from cloning as well as other customization enablers.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the clone functionality in Jira is a simple, flat, non-configurable process. There are a couple of plugins available which control aspects of it ( See https://plugins.atlassian.com/search/with?q=clone&product=jira ), but most people end up having to write something that suits them. The last link on that list is a "script runner" which can make it much more easy.

I think the main reason it's limited is that no two people want the same thing from the clone function, so there's no way to agree on a specification that will work satisfactorily for a broad set of users. My main client at the moment has 5,000 users and I've got 12 requests for different forms of cloning which are all totally different, and three of which are utterly contradictory.