Adding a new hierarchy in Jira Standard

[Lionel Mullin]

Is it possible to add a new hierarchy issue type above Epic using Jira Cloud Standard? I'd like to use a new issue type (e.g. Feature or Initiative) above Epic to see my multiple projects at a higher level view. 

[Joseph Chung Yin]

@Lionel Mullin -

Welcome to the community.  Unfortunately, this functionality is provided through the Advanced Roadmaps for Jira (out of the box free) component for Premium/Enterprise subscription only.

You may want to search Atlassian Marketplace for possible third-party add-ons to give you that functionality to setup issue hierarchy as provided via Advanced Roadmap for Jira.

Sorry.

Best, Joseph Chung Yin

Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Technology Applications Team

Viasat Inc.

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Lionel Mullin

welcome to the community! Just to expand on the Joseph's answer: If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this is how this could look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira:

For context, JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including the ability to model issue hierarchies of any number of levels. These can be based on Jira's built-in parent/child relationships (like task/sub-task, or epic/story), and/or based on issue links.

In the above clip, initiatives (like e.g. WORK-161) are connected to epics using is parent of/is child of issue links.

As Joseph suggested, there are other apps that can help with this, too. You may already know that you can trial any app for free for 1 month, and depending on the size of your size, it may be free forever. So if an app is an option for your, perhaps try a few and see which works best for you.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Amay Purohit_RVS]

Hi @Lionel Mullin 

Welcome to the Atlassian community !!

You can use issue links to create a hierarchy beyond the standard Jira 3 level hierarchy. However you would need an app to visualize a hierarchy based on your issue links. If you are open for the same, you can have a look at our app.

Issue Hierarchy 

Through this app you can create , visualize, manage your own hierarchy using issue Links upto 10 level. Do Try it out.

Disclaimer : I am part of the team which developed this app