Set up Jira Software Cloud
Learn how to set up Jira Software Cloud and integrate it with other products and applications.
Edit multiple issues in bulk on your plan
This page refers to the advanced planning features that are only available as part of Jira Software Cloud Premium and Enterprise.
We have a separate section for documentation about the project timeline that’s included in Jira Software. Go to the documentation for project-level roadmaps in Jira.
Your plan is a sandbox environment meaning that any changes you make won’t be committed back to your Jira Software issues until you choose to do so.
your plan lets you change values of multiple issues at the same time using the Bulk actions menu.
Select multiple issues at once
All of the actions below begin by selecting the issues you want to edit using the checkboxes in the Scope column. Hold Shift on your keyboard to select a range of issues at once. This method will only select the issues displayed in your plan, and not collapsed child or descendant issues. To select hidden issues, expand the parent before selecting.
If you would like to select an entire story or epic, go to the icon in the Issues column and choose select this and all descendant issues or select only descendant issues.
The Bulk actions menu will only appear after you’ve selected an issue.
Reassign issues to individuals, teams, or sprints
Once you’ve selected your issues:
Navigate to Bulk actions > Assignee, Team, or Sprint.
Use the dropdown menu to reassign the issue. Unassigned or None will clear the assignment field.
Select Apply to complete your changes.
Update issue dates
Before you can change issue dates in bulk, your date must be associated with the issue sources of the plan. If you’re using a custom date, this process needs to be done by an administrator. Learn how to enable custom fields in your plan.
Once you’ve selected your issues:
Navigate to Bulk actions > Dates.
Choose to Keep existing, Clear date, Set by child issue dates which will aggregate the dates of child issues up to the selected parent issues, or Set custom date.
Select Apply to complete your changes.
Update parent issues
In order to move multiple child issues, they must be of the same hierarchy level and cannot be the highest level in your plan (for example, epic).
Issues from team-managed projects can’t be assigned to a new parent issue outside of the project in which they were created. If you select any issues that are part of a team-managed project, you’ll only be able to clear the Parent field using the Bulk actions menu.
To update parent issues:
Navigate to Bulk actions > Parent.
Choose the parent issue to which you'd like to move the selected child issues. To clear the current values for the selected issues, select None.
Select Apply to complete your changes.
Update issue rank
Once you've selected the issues you'd like to re-rank in the Scope section, there are two ways to move them.
The first way to update issue rank:
Navigate to the Bulk actions menu > Rank. Choose the new rank for the selected issues from the following options:
Top of plan - rank issues as highest priority and move to the top of the plan
Bottom of plan - rank issues as lowest priority and move to the bottom of the plan\
Above issue - rank issues above a specific issue of your choosing
Below issue - rank issues below a specific issue of your choosing
Select Apply to move the issues to their new rank.
The second way to update issue rank:
Select the issues you'd like to re-rank.
Hover over the issue where you would like to place them in your plan, and select more () > Rank selected issues above/below.
Re-ranked issues may appear differently than their actual rank because they will be visually ordered according to the parent-child relationships in your plan. Their new rank will be more accurately displayed in Jira Software.
Update issue releases
The process of updating release details for issues is the same whether they are in the same project or part of a cross-project release.
Once you’ve selected your issues:
Navigate to Bulk actions > Release.
In the modal, choose the destination release into which you would like to move the selected issues. Only releases that are associated with projects of the selected issues will be available. Choose None to clear the current values for the selected issues.
Select Apply to complete your changes.
Edit Jira Software issues from your plan
Select Bulk change in Jira in the Bulk actions menu to make changes directly to issues in Jira Software. You can edit, move, transition, delete, watch, and stop watching issues while in the context of a plan.
Remove issues from a plan
Removing issues that exist in Jira Software from your plan won’t effect the issue date saved in your instance. However, if you remove an issue that isn’t saved in Jira Software, it will be gone forever.
To remove issues from your plan:
Navigate to Bulk actions > Remove from plan
Select Remove to confirm.
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