Assigning or creating tasks to/under stories (next gen)

[Sarah W]

Background

I am working in the next gen area and I have created a Kanban project. Using the backlog area I have created several high level epics all of which have been sub divided into more manageable user stories. 

The hierarchy I am going for is Project > Epic > Story > Task. I have included all of these issue types into the project. 

Problem 

I cannot seem to sub-divide my user stories into 'bite size' tasks. I can create tasks that are part of the epic, but are not in the story hierarchy. 

Does anyone know how I can solve this?

[Carlos Garcia Navarro · Accepted solution]

Hi Sarah,

In JIRA projects you can accomplish this by adding sub-tasks (tasks and stories are at the same level). However, for next-gen projects sub-tasks are not available yet. They seem to be coming soon as described in the roadmap (https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap/jira-software?_ga=2.178977255.2131793050.1557419558-1763566203.1523917618#result-066d462c)

Can you use a regular JIRA project rather than a next-gen?

Hope it helps,

Carlos

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

And this is the JIRA ticket used by Atlassian to track this feature:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17155