Is there a way to create a bug within a subtask? Do not want to go via linking approach

Question

Hi Team

Is there a way to create a bug within a subtask?

I want all my bugs linked under a subtask that qa had picked

Currently its very painful to link every bug one by one, imagine a qa raise 20 bugs and has to link each one of them is there no auto way to handle it?

If there could be a create button within subtask would be helpful

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Sub-tasks can not contain further sub-tasks.  You will either need to use links, or raise bug sub-tasks against the parent story (of which the sub-task is already a part)

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Pooja Kurbetti

welcome to the community!

If you really want to create a bug "within" a subtask, I'm afraid that issue linking is the only way to model this.

There are apps in the Atlassian Marketplace that would make the issue creation easier; e.g. if you model your hierarchy in JXL for Jira and use the inline issue creation, it would automatically set the correct issue links for you:

(There's much more than this to JXL; it's really a full-fledged table/spreadsheet view on your issues. More info @ https://jxl.app. Disclaimer: I work on JXL :) )

This being said, it may be worth rethinking your Jira "data model" - if you manage to model something that is more aligned with Jira's native Epic/Issue/Subtask hierarchy, you will typically get better experiences with in Jira. (JXL would still work perfectly fine, of course.)

Hope this helps,

Hannes