meaning of parent and child relations

Question

Hopefully someone can help me in the right direction.
I'm wondering what I can do with the link types "parent" and "child".

I made Epic XX parent of Epic YY, but in the roadmap the still appear as "equal" epics.

What is purpose of parent / child links?

John Funk · Accepted Answer

Hi Jeroen,

You can't make an Epic the parent of another Epic. If you are using Advanced Roadmaps, you can add a new issue type such as Initiative or Theme or something to that affect, and then build your hierarchy.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

Epics can't contain other Epics.  To group Epics together, you'll need to go up to Initiatives and Themes.

A link saying "parent/child" is not a parent/child relationship as far as the software is concerned, it's just a link.