Hello Zoho Projects Team,
We hope you are doing well.

We would like to submit a feature request regarding moving closed Issues between projects in Zoho Projects.

Current Limitation:

As of now, Zoho Projects allows users to move closed Tasks between projects, but the same action is blocked for closed Issues.

When attempting to bulk move Issues from one project to another, any Issue in a closed state is not selectable unless it is manually reopened first.

This creates an inconsistent experience between Tasks and Issues, even though both are valid historical work items that may need to be reorganized.

Why this is a problem:

In real project lifecycle management, there are many legitimate cases where teams need to reorganize completed work across projects, for example:

• project restructuring
• merging old projects into archive projects
• splitting modules into new projects
  
• migration cleanup
  
• historical reporting alignment
• milestone consolidation

In our specific case, we needed to move 313 closed Issues from one project to another.

Because closed Issues cannot be moved, the only current workaround is:

• reopen each issue
• move it
• close it again

This is extremely time-consuming, error-prone, and unnecessary, especially when compared to the smoother behavior already available for closed Tasks.

Requested Enhancement:

We kindly request that Zoho Projects allow closed Issues to be moved between projects without requiring reopening.

This should ideally support:

• single issue move
• bulk selection of multiple closed issues
• project-to-project transfer
• preserving status as Closed after the move
• maintaining comments, attachments, history, and linked commits
• preserving milestone and module references where applicable

Benefits:

Implementing this enhancement would provide:

• consistent behavior between Tasks and Issues
• much easier project restructuring
• simpler migration and archive workflows
• reduced administrative overhead
• better historical data integrity
• major time savings for PMO and engineering teams

This would be especially valuable for teams using Zoho Projects for long-term software lifecycle management, where completed issues often need to be reorganized as project structures evolve.

Thank you for considering this request and for continuously improving Zoho Projects.

Kind regards,
Ram