The Clone Plus add-on will be deprecated at the next renewal due to billing increases, security concerns, and functional issues. Most use cases for this functionality were for creating a work item in different project, while maintaining the summary, description, and attachments, and including a link to the source work item. For the purposes of the previously mentioned functions, this can be replicated natively by the Create Linked Work Item action.
The benefits of using the Created Linked Work Item action over Clone Plus include:
Native functionality and supported directly by Atlassian
Less screens to navigate through
Simplifies and reduces the fields on the ‘create’ screen
Action performance is quicker
Respects and validates permissions thus preventing any permission errors
Create Linked Work Item
To create a new linked work item:
Navigate to the desired work item
Select the Link work item button from the top of the work item
In the Linked work items section, select Create linked work item (below other linked work items and the dropdown/text field)
Review the fields on the Create linked issue screen
If the destination project that the work item is being created in has any required fields, they will automatically be included and populated with a default value for review
If the source work item contains any attachments, the bottom of the Create linked issue screen will include a checkbox to include all attachments in the created request
Select Create