Nested Projects in Jira

Question

Dear Jira Community

I am new to Jira and would like to know if there is a way to nest projects, i.e. creatig a project, and another one within that one and then having epics for each project?

For example:

Big Project

>>> Project 1

>>>>>> Epic*

>>> Project 2

>>>>>> Epic*

Thanks.

Tansu Akdeniz · Accepted Answer

Hi @Nkululeko Qwabe

Welcome to community.

Unfortunately, you can not create nested projects. But, it is possible to categorize projects in top level.

Ex:

Project Category (Customers)

-> Project A

-> Project B

Project Category (Internal)

-> Project C

-> Project D

Please check this link.

Leo Diaz - Deiser · Accepted Answer

Hi @Nkululeko Qwabe

Welcome to the community! I'm Leo Díaz, Head of Products from DEISER (Solution & Marketplace partner)

You can use Projectrak to link projects (please check the column related projects in next screenshot)

Hope it helps!

Leo

Trudy P Claspill · Accepted Answer

Hello @Nkululeko Qwabe

Welcome to the community.

What are you trying to achieve by having a "parent" project? Fore instance, are you trying to combine output of multiple projects in a single report?

If you tell us what you are trying to achieve we may be able to suggest a method for accomplishing it.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

> I just want to be able to view all the work in our department under one project

Nested projects would not do that, even if Jira implemented them.  Your "view of all our work" should be drawn from, well, the work, which means looking at the issues.

One example would be "search for all issues assigned to people in our department", and that's what most people would use.  If you are genuinely having a set of projects that contain all the issues for your department, that's fine, but rather than looking at assignee or stamping some other think on the issues, I would put all the projects for each department into a project category for that department and then use the search "category = <department>" to see all the issues across all those projects, as the base of your report.