Symptom
An issue is created on the story map but disappears before the Epic link is set.
Cause
There are additional clauses included in the board filter that cannot be met using the Quick Create API.
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This issue occurs between step 1 and 2 where we "lose" the story before we can associate the Epic due to the story not meeting the criteria of the board filter.
Work-around
Unfortunately there isn't much in-product we can do about this as it's due to inbuilt Jira functionality that we cannot alter.
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