Duplicating Issues

You can duplicate an existing issue to create a new issue.

Before you begin: From the context menu of an issue, click Duplicate. The app immediately creates the issue. You can use the properties and tabs to add or edit any required details. Those tabs add the same details that you would add using the form. If you want to create a single duplicate, and keep all attachments and the title of the original issue, skip this step.
  1. To configure the new issue, follow these steps:
    1. Select Advanced duplicate.
    2. If you want to include the related objects in the new issue, select the Keep existing related objects in duplicated issues check box.
    3. If you want to copy the attachments from the original issue to the new issue, select the Keep existing attachments in duplicated issues check box.
    4. If you want to create multiple issues, select a number from Number of copies.

      Note: The maximum number of copies is 20.

    5. To add a prefix or suffix to the title of the original issue, enter text in Prefix or Suffix box.
    6. To edit the title for the issue, enter a regular expression in the Replace box. The format for this field is regexp:regexp, where the first regexp is the expression for the original issue's title that is replaced by the second regexp.
    7. To include an iterated number in the title after any replace, prefix, and suffix changes have been made, add a regular expression to the Iterator box. The numeric part of the regular expression will be incremented.
  2. Click Duplicate.
    If you selected Advanced duplicate, the app displays a confirmation dialog box, listing the issues to be created. You can see the results of any changes entered to change the titles for the new issues before they are created. You can click Cancel to return to the dialog box and adjust any of the title parameters.
  3. Click Confirm.