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Adding a Parent Link to an EPIC issue

Carolyn Barbierato

I have added another hierarchy (called "Initiative") and have followed the steps by adding the initiative issue type to my board and have also added it at the Level 1 hierarchy level above Epic in the Hierarchy organization screen. I now need to add a Parent Link field to the screen that Epics use which will allow me to set the Epic as a child of the Initiative. Does anyone have specific instructions for adding Parent Link field?

Thanks very much

Kind Regards

Carolyn

Accepted answers

Prince Nyeche - ELFAPP

Hi @Carolyn Barbierato

Parent Link field is created automatically, please follow the below

Go to your Project Settings > Screens
Under the Epic issue type, click to add a field to the screen. Depending on if you've separated your Issue type screen scheme
Search for the Parent Link field and add it
Navigate to the Issue view and search for the Initiative under the Parent Link to associate it.

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Prince Nyeche - ELFAPP

Hi @Carolyn Barbierato

Parent Link field is created automatically, please follow the below

Go to your Project Settings > Screens
Under the Epic issue type, click to add a field to the screen. Depending on if you've separated your Issue type screen scheme
Search for the Parent Link field and add it
Navigate to the Issue view and search for the Initiative under the Parent Link to associate it.

Carolyn Barbierato

Hi Prince

That worked perfectly, thank you very much for your response.

Kind Regards

Carolyn

Elaine Cawthorne

I have done all of the above steps and when I look at my parent link drop down it contains initiatves from other projects and portfolio features from other projects but none of my initiatives - is there a setting somewhere that I have missed?

Aleksandar Salevski_9tkk7n

Hi,

I have the same problem!, did you manage to solve it?

BR,

Alex

Elaine Cawthorne

Hi Alex,

we were trialling premium and someone else picked up the roadmap assesment so I can't help i'm afraid - we didn't go ahead with the purchase or I would go a look so apologies

Samuel Bar_bd9boh

Hi,
how can be added the Parent Link field to an Epic for Software Projects?

jono_tt

Not sure if this helps anyone but I was able to link the Epic to a Parent only after adding the Issue Type to the "advanced roadmaps" hierarchy.

The confusing bit for me was that I wasn't intending to use this parent linking for "advanced roadmaps" and so even thou the setting was located in "Advanced Roadmaps", this change affected the normal JIRA issue structure too.

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Location of the Hierarchy is here:

https://[your-sub-domain].atlassian.net/secure/PortfolioHierarchy.jspa

NOTE: remember to change: [your-sub-domain] to whatever your subdomain for JIRA cloud.

Dave Rosenlund (Trundl)

You're right, @jono_tt. Layers above the Epic are added to Jira with Advanced Roadmaps (which comes only with Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise, or Jira Data Center) -OR- a number of Atlassian Marketplace apps. It's not a built-in Jira feature.

Congrats on making it work 👍🏻

-dave

Greg Jorgensen_s2fe9n

Thank you for the information. I couldn't find the 'Parent Link' field to add and then discovered that it is Locked by default.

Harsh_v2xlv7

Hi @Carolyn Barbierato

Do you have any idea, how to we get the issues in JQL format?.
Like for example, I want all Epic in ONE PARENT LINk and the respective child issues in EPIC?

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