Automation rule to clone an Epic with its child issues

Summary

This article will guide you to create an automation rule to clone an Epic with its child issues.

Solution

1. Use a manual trigger to clone a specific Epic.

2. Use a condition to check if the trigger issue is an Epic.

3. Use the clone action to clone the Epic issue.

4. Create a variable to save the newly created Epic issue key using this smart value:

   1 {{createdIssue.key}}

5. Use a branch to access the Stories or other issues in the Epic.

6. Use the clone issue action to clone the child issues.

7. Use the variable to set the parent into the cloned stories, copy and paste the variable name:

   1 {{NewEpicLink}}

You can use the same approach to clone any hierarchy-level issues.