JIRA Clone and Move Plugin

Hi Mei,

Thanks for providing this. A few notes:

1) The operation did not appear after following your instructions. When I visited the Plugins admin page I saw that "Clone and Move Issue Operation Module" was disabled. Once I enabled it, it appeared. What is "Clone and Move Issue Webwork Module (clone.and.move.webwork)" for?

2) Is there any way to incorporate this as a workflow post function?

3) Is it possible to restrict this operation so that it only shows up for people with "Move" permission?

Mei - just to let you know.. this plug-in did not work on my live installation. On my test installation (standalone), after pressing the link, I get a screen (CloneAndMoveIssueDetails.jspa) with this text:

whereas on my live installation (using Weblogic), I get a screen like this:

.. with no way to enter the summary of the issue. There's no error (or any activity) in the logs.

The view source from standalone looks like this:

    <tr class="fieldArea" id="summaryFieldArea">
    <td  class="fieldLabelArea" >
            <label for="summary">
                    <span class="required" title="Fields in italics are required">^*
            Summary:
            </span>
                </label>
        </td>
            <td class="fieldValueArea">
       

<input type="text"
    name="summary" id="summary" class="textfield"
    value="CLONE -kjklj"
    maxlength="255">

                    </td>
    </tr>

The view source from live (Weblogic) looks like this:

<tr
       
       
    >
       
       
           
           
                <td class="fieldLabelArea">
           
       
       
       
        
        Clone Links:
       
       
        </td>

    <td bgcolor="ffffff" class="fieldValueArea">

<input type="checkbox"
       name="cloneLinks"
       value="true"
    
       
    
    
       
    
    
       
    
    
       
    
    
       
    
    
       
    
/>

Same code in both places. 

Hello Mei,

I tried out your plugin and noticed that it only works for standard issue types, but not for sub-tasks.

Since it is possible to import standard issues to Jira by CVS import but it is not possible to import sub-tasks, the clone-and-move approach is very valuable to quickly create sub-tasks, especially if a bunch of issues all have similar sub-tasks.
I'll try to better explain the use case.
Let me say, I have a big bunch of issues to create, all with the same kinds of subtasks. Then my strategy would be to create the parent issues in Excel by easy cut-n-paste, import them with the cvs importer, then create the first sub-task for one of the issues and finally multiply it by clone-and-move.

In this scenario the clone-and-move plugin is especially useful for sub-task, more than for standard issues.

So please consider extending the appoach to sub-tasks, if you have the opportunity to do so!

Best regards

Bettina Zucker 

Has anyone actually gotten this plug-in to work?

Mei - I can no longer get this plug-in to work, even on standalone. Are you sure the instructions are accurate? First off, the name of the jar file doesn't match your doc'n. Either way, I get an error when clicking it. It's long, so I'll attach it. I will not install on live Weblogic until it works in test.

By the way - one main reason to use this would be to avoid the "Issue Created" event in the original project (since it is destined to be moved as soon as it is created). Does this plug-in prevent that from happening?

I've tried over and over. I've followed the instructions and triple checked everything. This plugin simply doesn't work for me.

OK, something really weird...

I managed to install it on production (it took a few restarts) and seems to work when I test it.

Except for one issue. All other issues in the project and other projects seem to work just fine. But for this one, the screen that pops up has no field to enter summary of the issue.

If I create a support ticket with data to reproduce would you take a look?

Hello,

I am writing a plugin that needs the relationship you create between the clone and the original issue. I was wondering if you know how to access it through the Jira API. I have tried to use the LinkManager and things of the sort, but I haven't seemed to find something that works.

 Thank you!

Shannon O'Dell

Is anyone using this successfully in 3.9, 3.10? The top of page says only supported to version 3.8

Thanks

Is it just me, or is the downloadable zip corrupt?  When I tried to open either of the zips, WinXP complains that they are corrupt.  Not having any problems with other plugins.

Thanks,
Greg

There seems to be a minor error in the plugins operation with notifications: essentially, when an issue is clone-moved, the notification sends a non-existent issue ID. It's hard to explain so I'll just get to the example:

1. An issue is created with an ID ALI-85.
2. A Clone and Move action is perfomed from ALI-85 to ALW-942.
3. Cliens receiving notifications receive one that says a new issue has been created, and gives a link to ALI-86

The new link redirects to the correct issue so it's not a real problem, but a an inconsistency nonetheless.

Hi all,

Is there a planned version for Jira 3.11 ?

I downloaded the latest version 1.2.3 but plugin is not present in Jira.

I am trying to open the file with Winzip but it fails.

Thanks,