Were can I find "parentless" subtasks?

Mathias_59sjux

Hi community,

in my Jira Next-Gen project I had a Task with three subtasks and converted the task into an epic. 

My expectation was, that Jira automatically converts the three subtasks into tasks of that EPIC. However this was not the case...Those subtasks are still subtasks which are floating around without a parent and which are hard to track down, because they do not show up in the backlog, board or anywhere else. 

If you do not know the ticket number to browse them directly I can not find them anymore...

Anyone else had this issue and knows a handy way around?

Regards

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ok, there's a couple of tricks here.

The sub-tasks are not true orphans.  They appear to have lost the link to their parent, because the parent is an Epic, and there is even an "add parent" in the tools menu for them.  They don't look like they have a parent, and the parent has disavowed them.

But the data for the link is still there in the background and you can get to them in two ways

• Simple searches shows them up.  Even just browsing a project, or using "issue type = sub-task" with the project got them.
• If you change the epic back to a story-level issue, the parent/child relationship reappears.  Might be a bit clunky have to change all their parents to something else before re-doing the move to Epic, but at least it's not completely lost.

I'm a bit surprised Atlassian did it this way.  Ideally I'd like a "convert sub-tasks to stories, or tell me a new parent" question, rather than wilfully orphan them.  Either one of those would be good enough for me (but I'd like both options)