Summary

Once the Clone Plus for Jira is installed, 2 new clone actions are available for issues (Clone + and Clone ++). The first allows cloning within the same project and the second allows the project and issue type to be changed. These are in addition to the standard clone action provided natively by JIRA. If you do not want all of these clone actions available, you can selectively disable one or more actions. More over, you can easily provide more specific, customized actions to suite your development process. The plugin ships an additional 16 actions available for customization. They are disabled by default. They can be enabled in UPM easily as you need. UPM remembers which actions are enabled on upgrades .

Steps to disable the standard clone action

The clone+ actions provide equivalent and enhanced support, so you might want to disable the shipped clone action. There are 2 ways to disable it.

Best method

1. You must be a JIRA Administrator with access to add-ons
2. Go to Add-ons and Manage add-ons
3. Select to see System add-ons
4. Find Issue Operations Plugin
5. Expand modules
6. Find View Issue Ops Bar Clone Link and disable it! This is affective immediately.

Alternate

1. You must be a JIRA Administrator with access to the JIRA installation server file system
2. This method must be repeated when upgrading JIRA 

3. Edit the installation file indicated below and restart JIRA

   Edit .../WEB-INF/classes/system-issueoperations-plugin.xml

   ...
   <!-- Comment this option out
       <web-item key="clone-issue" i18n-name-key="webfragments.view.issue.opsbar.operations.ops.clone" name="Clone this issue" section="operations-operations" weight="20">
           <label key="cloneissue.operation"/>
           <tooltip key="admin.issue.operations.plugin.clone.issue.name"/>
           <styleClass>issueaction-clone-issue</styleClass>
           <link linkId="clone-issue">
               /secure/CloneIssueDetails!default.jspa?id=${issueId}
           </link>
           <condition class="com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.conditions.HasProjectPermissionCondition">
               <param name="permission">create</param>
           </condition>
       </web-item>
   -->
   ...

Steps to enable or disable the clone plus actions

Perhaps you want to provide a more customized clone action. You can disable the default clone plus actions that are available automatically when the Clone Plus for Jira is installed. And then enable the custom option(s) you want.

1. You must be a JIRA Administrator
2. Go to Add-ons and Manage add-ons
3. Select to see User-installed add-ons
4. Find the Clone Plus for Jira - look for plugins starting with Bob Swift
5. Expand modules
6. Find the options that you want to enable or disable
7. Disable or enable the action(s) you want
8. The change will be in effect immediately