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Scenario
When you are transitioning an epic, there can be a scenario where you want to create a new epic in the same project with all the epic issues copied from the original epic into the same project or a different one. Create Issue post function provides a way of accomplishing this scenario instead of adding all the issues individually to the newly created epic.
This tutorial explains two scenarios:
A. Copy epic and its issues to a newly created issue within the same project
B. Copy epic and its issues to a newly created issue in a different project
Steps
Consider an epic with three issues from an example project:
The following steps demonstrate how to copy the epic with the epic issues to the newly created issue using Create Issue post function
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Scenario A - Copy epic and its issues to a newly created issue within the same project
Perform the following steps to copy epic and its issues to a newly created issue within the same project:
Scenario B - Copy epic and its issues to a newly created issue in a different project
For this scenario, follow the same steps as Scenario A and replace step 2 with:
In the Detailed Fields tab:
Project - "[IP] iPhone project" (Example project different from the original)
Issue type - "Epic"
Copy issues in epic - Turn On
These settings result in the following output:
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Note that the issues highlighted here are similar to the source epic issues and are now a part of the target project.