Question: How to Copy Issues?

[FabioOrsi]

Hello again!

In Redmine's GUI it's possible to make copies of issues, including their attachments.
I was wondering if it's possible to do the same action using the API, including copying the attachments.

The current solution I found is to get each issue, download their attachments, create the new issues and reupload the attachments. This approach is not very practical considering the attachments are over 20MB and that there are about 40000 issues to be copied.

Thanks!

[maxtepkeev]

Hi @FabioOrsi

Yes, issue copying isn't supported in the REST API, only in GUI, also, there's no way to re-associate an already uploaded attachment to an issue without re-uploading it. There's even an issue about that.

Unfortunately right now the only way to copy an issue is to do what you're already doing.

[maxtepkeev]

I can try to mimic the copy functionality from GUI, but not sure that it will work, so can't promise you anything. Let's keep this issue open until I try and we'll see if that works or not.

[maxtepkeev]

Implemented in b5252b2. Will be released in v2.5.0.

[GitHubGavin]

Great!! Thank You.