# I am syncing stories and their child issues from jira cloud to jira cloud but the parent child issue is not working. Epic links and colors are not syncing. Can somebody help?
**URL:** https://community.exalate.com/t/i-am-syncing-stories-and-their-child-issues-from-jira-cloud-to-jira-cloud-but-the-parent-child-issue-is-not-working-epic-links-and-colors-are-not-syncing-can-somebody-help/5268
**Category:** General Questions
**Tags:** usecase, migrated\_question
**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/i-am-syncing-stories-and-their-child-issues-from-jira-cloud-to-jira-cloud-but-the-parent-child-issue-is-not-working-epic-links-and-colors-are-not-syncing-can-somebody-help/5268 "2024-11-04T07:54:36Z")
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### Author:  [@xl8bot](https://community.exalate.com/u/xl8bot)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/i-am-syncing-stories-and-their-child-issues-from-jira-cloud-to-jira-cloud-but-the-parent-child-issue-is-not-working-epic-links-and-colors-are-not-syncing-can-somebody-help/5268/1 "2024-11-04T07:54:36Z")
_Originally asked by Caroline Vandenplas on 05 August 2022 [(original question)](https://oldcommunity.exalate.com/questions/58493203)_
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### Author:  [@xl8bot](https://community.exalate.com/u/xl8bot)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/i-am-syncing-stories-and-their-child-issues-from-jira-cloud-to-jira-cloud-but-the-parent-child-issue-is-not-working-epic-links-and-colors-are-not-syncing-can-somebody-help/5268/2 "2024-11-04T07:54:37Z")
_Answer by Jose Pablo Alpizar Hidalgo on 05 August 2022_
Please review the following article to follow the steps to configure an Epic synchronization, also make sure you were able to synchronize Epics first, then synchronize stories to keep parent-child relations between issues:
[https://docs.idalko.com/exalate/x/nQF1Aw](https://docs.idalko.com/exalate/x/nQF1Aw)
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