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. Create Issue post function provides a way of accomplishing this scenario instead of adding issues individually to the newly created epic.

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:

If you want create a new epic in a different project with all the original epic issues copied to the newly created epic, modify step 2 to the following:

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 in step 4:

Note that the issues highlighted here are similar to the source epic issues and are now a part of the target project.

Copy epic issues to a newly created issue within same project

Scenario

Steps