Title of parent task changes to title of child task - bug

Question

Hi everyone,

I've encountered an issue in Jira when editing the title of a child task and navigating to the parent task while editing.
This seems to be a bug in Jira and I wonder if others experience the same behaviour.

Since it's much easier to explain my workflow with pictures, I attached a few to this message :)

First, go to a subtask.

Second, click on the title to edit it

Now, click on the parent task ID (DATA-5293) at the top while editing the title of the parent ticket.

As you can see, in the end the title of the parent ticket is changed to the title of the subticket.

Daniel Ebers · Answer

Hi @Roy Nijhuis

I fully agree with Bill and wanted to add that I remembered a Bug like this from the past - please kindly check if:

* Clicking on the Summary of a child issue will copy the value to its parent when navigating back trough the breadcrumb
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-76050

reflects what you are seeing. If this should be the case feel free to vote for the issue over there. In case you want to be notified about it's progress you could also click on "Start watching this issue" over there.

Regards,
Daniel

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi, Roy.

To learn if this is in fact a problem, I suggest following your steps, (edit child summary, select parent breadcrumb link), and then selecting the checkmark to save, and see if it indeed updates the parent issue.

If so that seems like a problem as perhaps selecting the breadcrumb link should:

* abandon the edit and navigate to the parent...or...
* show the unsaved changes message and not navigate away from the child. 
* I would hope it doesn't get stuck in the middle.

Based on your results, consider asking your site admin to submit a support ticket to learn what is supposed to happen, and if your observed symptom is a defect: https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

Thanks!

Roy Nijhuis · Answer

Hi @Bill Sheboy

Thank you!
You are correct that the title is not saved before clicking somewhere on the screen (or on the checkmark).
However, before I save it, I am unable to see the correct title of the parent ticket and it is very cumbersome to have to manually type this in every time.

The fact that the child ticket title gets copied over to the parent title is quite odd imo, and is something that should not happen, at least not in my workflow.