Parent of Initiative

[anne.gerten]

Hi,

we are using Jira initiatives. Our Jira initiatives have the Parent field.

Now I would like to select another initiative as parent of my initiative.

But when going into the parent field, the dropdown is empty. When I enter my desired parent initiative key into the parent field, it does not find it, it says no match found.

How can I add initiatives as parents to my initiative in Jira Cloud?

Thanks,

Anne

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

The short answer is you can't. The parent field is based on the hierarchy you have defined on your instance, and a work item can only belong to a single level, therefor you cannot set an initiative to be the parent of another initiative.

[anne.gerten]

Thanks!

Why do initiatives have the parent field then though?

[Mikael Sandberg]

That depends on your screen scheme that you have associated with the work item. If you create a new scheme and screens you remove the parent field for initiatives.