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Using complete work-package trees as templates (e.g. via a category) is a common work-around. Unfortunately, copying (i.e. instantiating) such a template does not retain all relational information (follows etc.) among the copies as they were in the template.

# Reproduction Steps

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1. Begin of the insertionCreateEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion createEnd of the deletion work-package A
2. Begin of the insertionCreateEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion createEnd of the deletion work-package B
3. Begin of the insertionCreateEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion createEnd of the deletion a Begin of the insertionrelationEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion relationshipEnd of the deletion of type T between A and B Begin of the deletion (syntax: R(A,B,T) )End of the deletion
4. Begin of the insertionBulk-copyEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion bulk copyEnd of the deletion A and B as A' and B'

### What is the buggy behavior?

* Begin of the insertionThe relationEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion there is no relationship of typeEnd of the deletion T between A' and B' Begin of the insertion(copied versions)End of the insertion Begin of the deletion
* R(A', B', T)End of the deletion is Begin of the insertionnot preservedEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion missingEnd of the deletion

### What is the expected behavior?

1. Begin of the insertionRelationalEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion relationalEnd of the deletion information between A' and B' is retained (like when moving in bulk)
2. Begin of the insertionShouldEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion shouldEnd of the deletion work with all types of relationships (e.g. parent-child, follows-preceeds, etc.)

Begin of the insertion###End of the insertion Begin of the deletion #End of the deletion Details

* add behavior of copying relationships to https://github.com/opf/openproject/blob/dev/app/services/work\_packages/bulk/copy\_service.rb
* Begin of the insertion~~addEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion addEnd of the deletion a checkmark to disallow/allow the current Begin of the insertionbehavior~~

### Context

Using complete work-package trees as templates (e.g. via a category) is a common work-around. Unfortunately, copying (i.e. instantiating) such a template does not retain all relational information (follows etc.) among the copies as they were in the template.

### Out of scope

This bugfix won't introduce any options to let users pick if relations between original and copied work packages should be preserved. This will be dealt in a separate feature:

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