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This page provides the details to clone an issue along with the respective comments, links, and attachments. 

# Steps

1. Select an issue you want to clone in your Jira instance. For example, consider an issue with the comments,** **linked issues, and confluence page attachments as shown in the following image.
2. In the top-right corner, select **Actions ** > **Clone Plus*** *option or the **Clone Plus** quick-add button for any issue.
3. On the *Clone Plus for Jira *page, do the following:
  1. Select the required values for **Clone operation**, **Project**, and **Issue type**.
  2. In the **Clone options** section, select the following clone option:
    - **Attachments**
    - **Links**
    - **Comments**
4. Click **Clone**.
5. On the *Create issue *page, select values for all the issue fields as required.
6. Click **Create**.  
A successful issue creation message is displayed and the parent issue is cloned with the comments,** **linked issues, and confluence page attachments.

> ℹ️ - For the **Comments **clone option, you can select the **Keep original comment date **check box to retain the original date in the cloned issue.
> ℹ️ - In the cloned issue:
> ℹ️   - The Confluence links are copied as web links.
> ℹ️   - The original commentator is replaced with the user cloning the issue.
> ℹ️ - In certain cases, the view restricted comments are not copied to prevent the comment from becoming visible elsewhere. The rules are:
> ℹ️   - All comments are copied when going to the same project whether they have view restrictions or not.
> ℹ️   - Any view restricted comments retain the same restrictions when copied.
> ℹ️   - All view restricted comments that are restricted by group are copied.
> ℹ️   - All view restricted comments that are restricted by a project role restriction cannot** **be copied when the clone is to a different project.