How to create a hierarchical structure if i do not have Advanced Roadmap?

[Yana Nikolayeva]

Hi All, Looking for your help.

If my Jira does not have Advanced Roadmap: if there a way to create a hierarchical structure using the "Dependent Drop-down" field? (refer below)

I need to add Initiative and Program levels to my project with Epic, Story, Bug, Task, and Sub-task.
In Project Setting, I was able to -> add two New issue types (Initiative & Program).

Now I need to find a way to create a hierarchy above Epic.

The page that allows to configure Initiative has list of filed types (picture below). one of them "Dependent Drop-down" field

In Hierarchy filed i indicated Epic below Initiative and Program above but that configuration did not created hierarchy and Initiative is not above Epic

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Yana Nikolayeva 

No, that is not the purpose of the Dependent Dropdown list. That field is intended to be used to create a hierarchical list of values to select from such as

Vehicles
  Car
    sedan
    sport car
  Truck
    small truck
    standard truck
    superduty truck
  Van
    panel van
    cargo van

Without Advanced Roadmaps from the Premium version of Jira or one of the third party apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that helps you manage an extended issue type hierarchy, you will not be able to have a true hierarchy beyond the default hierarchy that is available. 

You can use the generic issue linking functionality to artificially indicate that one issue is a "parent" of another issue, but nothing in Jira will recognize the parent/child relationship based on that.

[Yana Nikolayeva]

Hi @Trudy Claspill Thank you for the clarification! Very detailed