Need for Custom issue type with Epic functionality!

Question

Hello All,

I appreciate your interest trying to help our issue.

We have a large requirement for a certain Jira use case, and POC was created where Epic issue type was used due to its functionality that perfectly fits the requiremets:

1. Epic name displayed automatically on child issues
2. Create child from epic view
3.  Have separate linking functionality besides relationship links

So the need to is have issue type with exactly same functionality as epic but with a different name.

Any input will be greatly appreciated!

Alex Kulichkov · Answer

Ok, we will use Epics for now, but will build out custom config to mimic some of the functionality in custom issue type.

Thank you for your responses.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

No, there's no way to use another issue type as though it is an Epic.

You can do bits of it with apps, but to get the more powerful parts of Epic handling would require you to rewrite Jira.

Alex Kulichkov · Answer

Hi Nic,

I understand that, we can't rename epic since we will still need it.

But is there a similar way to create link with color coding, so we can link issues to it and have it displayed like epic links?