How can I get the Dependency Report of Plan Views to automatically show parent/child relationships?

[imthenachoman]

My Jira project has these issue types:

• initiative
• program epic
• epic
• story
• issue
• sub-tasks

They have a hierarchy:

• program epics are children of initatives
• epics are children of program epics
• story and issue are children of epics

I'm including screenshots below.

These parent/child relationships are different than linked dependencies. We don't have to explicitly say that an issue is a child of another issue.

My question is, how can I get these to show up as "dependencies" in the dependency report in Plan Views. I know if I link two issues and say one depends on the other, then it'll show up in the dependency report. 

But I'm hoping there is a way to get the plan view to automatically show the parent/child dependencies. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @imthenachoman 

What you want is not possible. 

The Dependencies view is built from issue links. There is no option to include in it the relationships defined through the native parent/child feature.

[imthenachoman]

Oh. Dang. Is it possible to automate creating linked relationships based on parent/child relationships?

[Trudy Claspill]

I see that you are using Data Center according to your post tags.

It might be possible using Automation Rules, but it would be complex and likely take multiple rules as you would have to detect:

- when a child is added

- if a child is moved to a different parent (removed from one, added to another)

- if a child issue is deleted entirely

- if the type of an issue is changed, breaking the parent/child relationship

And those are just the scenarios I can think of off the top of my head.

I am more familiar with the capabilities of Automation Rules in Jira Cloud. I know the capabilities in Data Center are somewhat different, and may depend on the version you are using.

[imthenachoman]

Got it. Thank you!

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @imthenachoman,

I'm afraid that it's not possible to display the issues in the Dependency Report based on parent-child relationships.

If you're considering using a plugin and instead of using that report, you'd prefer a dashboard gadget, our Great Gadgets app could be a potential solution. Our app offers two gadgets that can display the issues from a fllter/JQL by their hierarchy.

Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget - can display the issues by their hierarchy Initiatives > Program Epics > Epics > Stories along with their fields.

  

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) gadget - can display the issues by their hierarchy Initiatives > Program Epics > Epics > Stories > Sub-tasks along with their current status.

If you need any help with the set-up of these gadgets, feel free to contact us directly at support@stonikbyte.com.

Danut.

[imthenachoman]

I will try this out. Thank you!