I want to change the hierarchy of issues

Question

I am still fairly new (one month in) to Jira.  We are on Jira Cloud and I want to change hierarchy for our projects.  Are there any issues that I need to consider prior to making this change. I need it to be:

Epic

Story

Task

Subtask

Right now, Story and Task are at the same "level" so you don't see the relationships of tasks to stories in any visual.  Thanks in advance for any advice or direction.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Yes, you write up a story that says where you want to go.

Your development team might break this up into bits according to components, skills or even just who might be around this week (your three sub-tasks).  You can see all the sub-tasks in a story when you look at the story.

Or you could create a load of stories and use issue links to link them all together - these will also show in the issue view.

Stephanie Skantze · Answer

Thanks for this but maybe I can ask my question or state my issue in a different way to get a better answer for me.

Example: I have a user story that represents the user requirement.  I have 3 tasks assigned to complete the user story.  There is nowhere for to graphically / visually see that these 3 tasks are related to the user story.  Is there any way to show the relationship?   OR, is there another way to represent what I have documented above in JIRA?

Kind regards,

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

The hierarchy in Jira Software is

Epic -> Issue -> Sub-task

(noting that you can have many different types at the issue level and sub-task level - that's where you're seeing your Story and Task at the same level)

Advanced Roadmaps extends upwards, and allows you to rename Epics, so if you're on Premium Cloud, you'll find you can create your hierarchy in there.