Epic link is lost when moving issues between projects

Move an issue to another project and its epic link silently disappears, breaking your backlog structure.

GM Reported by Grace M.JRACLOUD-12590 · DevOps Lead · 11 months ago Top-voted request ✓Fixed by Patcher
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The problem

Moving a story to a different project frequently drops its epic link, with no warning. The issue lands orphaned and your epic rolls up the wrong scope.

Who runs into this

Teams reorganising projects, splitting products, or migrating work between boards.

How Patcher fixes it

Patcher preserves the epic link across project moves where a matching epic exists, and flags the ones that need attention — so your hierarchy survives the move.

Top community comments

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Yuki T.· 1 year ago

Our admins get complaints about this weekly. Adding our +1 and a link to our internal ticket.

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Aisha R.· 2 years ago

This has been driving our team crazy for years. Please, Atlassian, just fix it.

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Lucas F.· 11 months ago

Can confirm — reproduces 100% of the time on a fresh project. How is this still open?

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