Changing jira road maps hierarchy

[Dean Losurdo]

I have currently been working at looking to change the hierarchy of our jira advanced roadmaps and want to get some clarification before altering anything. 

So currently our hierarchy is:

1. Epic
2. Initiative 

and what we are looking to change it to is 
1. Initiative
2. Feature
3. Epic 

Currently we have no tickets are are within the advanced roadmaps scope that use the issue type initiative or feature but we have alot of tickets that use epics. Will altering this mean we need to relink each and every epic? If so is this manually done with each ticket or can they all be re associated to the Epic issue type? 

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Dean Losurdo 

1. Issue types: First of all, you'll need to create new issue types named Initiative and Feature. Depending on your use case, you can either create a separate project for these new issue types or add them to the issue type scheme(s) of your current projects.
2. Workflows: Please note that those issue types will be associated with a workflow as well, so either choose an existing workflow or create a new one.
3. Issue Hierarchy: Now, you need to define your hierarchy as described by you. Attention: You can only have 1 hierarchy for the entire site.
4. Plan: Next, create a plan in Advanced Roadmaps and add the projects, boards or filters to the scope.
5. Parent/Child: Finally, link all Epics to Features via the parent/child relationship in Advanced Roadmaps and do the same for Features to Initiatives.