Hierachy level between Epic and standard issue types

[Timo Greimel]

I have the following work type scheme: Initiative - Epic - StandardTypes (Feature/Story/Task) - Subtask

I want to get a new work type between Epic and Standard, but in the hierachy settings I can only put work types above epic.

Is there a way to change that without an app?

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @Timo Greimel , welcome to the Atlassian Community and thanks for your post.

Please can I ask why you want to put another level between Epic and standard types?

In general, while you can have a custom hierarchy, you cannot, as you have seen, really fundamentally change the order of things. For example, you can't have anything lower than a sub-task either. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-the-issue-type-hierarchy/ 

You can have more levels above the Epic but after a while, I find it is not useful to have more than 4 levels of hierarchy as they start to lose meaning.

Please can you share a bit your thinking behind what you want to achieve / are trying to do?

Best wishes