Jira Cloud Automation - link Task and Subtask

[Sav Cent]

Hi,

i've created an big automation rules that's create Story/Task/Subtask on Epic creation:

I link story on Epic with filds Parent -> Work Item

but i don't find how to create link for task to story, subtask to story and subtask to task.

Please, Someone could help ?

regards

[Sav Cent · Accepted solution]

Hi,

thanks for your help. the only way i found is to separate the creation of all the issues.

rule 1 creation on creation of epic, create the three story (add parent link to the story)

rule 2,3,4 on transition of each story from to do to in progress, create task and sub task. (on each task/subtask, add parent link to them)

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Sav Cent 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

In a subtask the Parent field is also used to specify specify the parent item for the subtask.

Regarding the link of task to story, the native Jira work item hierarchy for not support that. The native hierarchy is

Epic
|-- standard work item types
    |-- subtask work item tupes

Items from the same level cannot be parents/children of each other. They are siblings. Have you customized the work item type hierarchy configuration in the global settings to change that?

You could use the generic issue linking to link a task to a story. That would not be seen by Jira as a parent/child relationship.

[M Chandra Shekar]

what @Trudy Claspill mentioned it’s absolutely correct. Same level work items we can’t use parent - child. What I can additionally suggest you that you can create custom link types (is parent of) and (is child of) Those you can use in your automation to link Task to story.