Child issue search field only seeing 1 issue

[Weston Mossman]

I just created a JIRA project and created ~10 issues. When using the search field for issue linking, all issues are searchable and selectable. But when using the search field for CHILD issues, only one issue is visible in the search results.

Is there some special state that an issue needs to be in to be linked as a child? Otherwise, is this a known issue?

Thanks!

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Weston Mossman 

Welcome to the community.

Yes, there is a specific way you have to connect issues for one to be considered a child of another (or conversely the parent of another).

The built-in parent/child hierarchy for issue types is:

Epic can be a parent of standard issue types (i.e. Story, Task, Bug, etc).

Standard issue types can be a parent Sub-task issue types.

An Epic can't be a parent to another Epic. A Story can't be a parent to a Task. 

Sub-tasks can be created only as a child of another issue.

What types of issues did you create?

Can you show us the filter you used to search for child issues?

Are you working with a Company Managed project or a Team Managed project?

There are a couple of methods for making a Standard Issue Type a child of an Epic, and those depend on which type of project you are using.