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Consider a scenario where you want This page provides details about how to clone all the issues that belong to a specific criteria saved in a Jira filter. This page explains the step by step process

You can use the Bulk Clone feature to clone all those issues.

Steps

A Jira filter containing all the stories from various projects is used here as an example.

Perform the following:

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the issues that belong to a specific criteria saved in a Jira filter. 

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The selected Jira filter

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can contain numerous issues

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, but a maximum of 1000 issues

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Click Next to navigate to the next step or Cancel to terminate the bulk clone operation and navigate back to the Jira filter.

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can be considered for the bulk clone operation.

Steps

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Filters ><filter name> to navigate to one of the saved filters. For example, consider you want to clone all the issues in the Project Epics Jira filter.

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  2. In the top-right corner, click Bulk Clone (Clone Plus for Jira).

  3. On the Choose issues page, select the issues you want to clone.

  4. Click Next.

  5. On the Bulk Clone details page, do the following:

    1. In the Clone operation field, select the clone operation which you want to apply to the issues being cloned.

  6. Project: The issues are cloned into the selected project.

  7. Issue type: The issues being cloned are assigned the selected issue type.

    Note
    • You cannot clone a Subtask to the same (subtask) issue type. You notice a warning once you submit the form for cloning. 
    • Images or any form of media added to rich text editor fields such as description, or comments, or environment, are copied to the cloned issue only if Copy attachments is selected. If not, a broken image is displayed in the respective field of the cloned issue. To know more about the support for copying media from text fields to the cloned issue, refer to 
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  8. Clone options: The values of the options selected here are copied to the respective issues being cloned.

  9. Click Next to navigate to step 3.

  10. Review the Issues selected and Bulk Clone details in Step 3 of 3: Confirmation tab. When ready, click Run Clone to clone the listed issues.
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    • The issue list in the Issues selected section is paginated and a maximum of five issues are displayed per page. Click the next (>) and previous (<) buttons to navigate to the next and previous pages respectively.
    • You can switch between the tabs at any point during setting up the details for bulk cloning and the details provided in the previous tab are retained.
    Click View Clone
    1. In the Project field, select the project to which you to clone the issues.

    2. In theIssue type field, select the issue type you want assign for the issues being cloned.

    3. In the Clone options section, click the required clone option.

  11. Click Next.

  12. In the Confirmation page, review the Issues selected and Bulk Clone details sections.

  13. Click Run Clone to clone the selected issues.
    The selected issues are cloned as configured. You can see the Clone report with the following details:

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  14. Click View clone(s) to view the all the cloned issues in the Search screenissue(s).Image Removed

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Info

​You cannot clone a subtask to the same (subtask) issue type. If you clone a subtask to the same (subtask) issue type, you will see a warning message.