Task-Hierarchy: impact of global change?

[Moritz Conjé]

We subscribed to JIRA Premium and have Advanced Roadmaps installed.

We want to use it even more in the future and setup an individual hierarchy for the issues.

I plan a new Issue-Type-Scheme:

• Initiative
• Phase
• Epic
• Story
• Task
• Sub-Task

Right now my (global) hierarchy for the issues looks like:

• Initiative
• Epic
• Task
• Sub-Task

When I edit the new hierarchy, I get a warning, that this would affect all existing projects. Besides a few, we are not working with any big hierarchy in our daily business.

What can be the impact of the change? Can I setup me new hierarchy or is there any BIG issue with that?

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Moritz Conjé 

In the projects you are using the current hierarchy the parent field will be cleared where it had values referencing Epic and child, as I expect you want to add the level Phase in your hierarchy between Initiative and Epic.