Making a task a sub task can’t be this clumsy plus task hierarchy limits

Matthew Stedman_c5wsq0

I am an experienced PM but a newbie to JIRA.  I have setup a project for a product development team and they have been creating their tasks in a brainstorming way.  They now want to reorganise things a little and this means making some tasks sub-tasks.  In almost every other PM software I have used this is a simple task of reordering tasks and “indenting” them or drag/drop under a parent.

From what I have read, the only way to do this in Jira is to do a bulk move which if true is a really clumsy process.  Is there a better way?

Also, how can I add more levels to task management …I can only find task/sub-task. Surely you can more levels than this?

Brant Schroeder

@Matthew Stedman welcome to the Atlassian community 

You are correct that there is only task and sub tasks.  Most people will link issues and then create additional links or sub tasks under those to create a hierarchy.  There are several apps that provide hierarchy if you need that structure in your project.  

You are also correct that out of the box you have to move them to make them a sub task.