Bulk linking issues - ability to search and select multiple issues to link

Summary

Currently, neither the bulk operation screen includes Linked issues as an option nor the issue view has an option to bulk update/remove linked issues.

In some cases, that might require a lot of manual work due to a high number of linked issues.

Suggestion

• Offer a way to bulk update/remove linked issues.
• Add the ability to search and select multiple issues in the Link issue field search

Workaround:

Create an automation rule:
1. Trigger:
Chose any type of trigger depending on your use case. If you only want to do it once, you may want to choose Scheduled trigger then run the rule manually.
2. Add Component > New Branch > Branch rule/related issues > Type of related issues > JQL:
Specify the JQL query returning the issues you need to edit.
Ensure there are no order by clauses and the issue you'll need to link to is not included in the query.
To include a list of issues, the JQL can be:
key in (key-1, key-2, key-3 etc)
3. Add Component > Action > Link Issues:
4. Publish and Run Rule.
5. Delete the rule if the issues were linked successfully.

Original Description

Customers might want to link an issue to all the issues matched from a search filter which might return more than 50 issues. In that case, they might want to make use of a Select All option. The requests are:

• Allow more than 50 search results (if any) to be returned from a search filter

• Include a check-box for Select All option

These are applicable when opening Issue Selector from Linked Issues field (if the field is made available on Create Issue screen). If using More -> Link option from Issue Detail View page, only up to 10 results are returned from an Advanced Search.