How can I change one Story or Task's parent Epic within one project?

Question

The preconditions are - we have a Classical Kanban Jira project. Some Epics opened and a new Story created by mistake without a parent Epic.

Looks like the Epic Link is locked on purpose:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/unlock-a-locked-jira-software-custom-field-779158866.html

While googling - some forums stated that drag and drop option from some boards is feasible but I couldn't drag an existing Story.

So without having this field unlocked and been not able to drag a Story to a new parent Epic - what could be an acceptable approach for changing the parent of a Story or a Task that is either not a child of any Epic or a child of a different epic?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello Pavel,

You will need to go to the Board Settings and enable the Epics pane. Only a person who has been designated as an Administrator for the board can do this.

Board Settings is found under the ellipses button in the upper right corner of the board (or backlog) screen.

After selecting that, select Columns and you'll find the switch for turning the Epics panel on and off. Turn it on, as shown in this image.

Pavel Kanazirev · Answer

Thanks, Trudy,

At my side - the view does not look like yours. Here is a screenshot:

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

When you are executing the "drag-and-drop" where are you dragging the story from, and where are you dropping it?

You need to click on the story in the lists of issues in the Backlog screen and you need to drag it over to the Epics pane and drop it on the Epic where you want it added.

That should add the story to the Epic without changing the Story's position in the list of issues.