Initiative issue type relationship with parent link

Question

I'm more looking for some intellectual and emotional support. We have recently trialed using Jira advanced tier to allow us to do:

- Custom heirarchy so we can have an initiative sitting above epics

- Produce roadmaps across multiple projects

We've found that Plans is pretty mid and we're using roadmunk instead. I intend to downgrade our jira bill back to the basic tier because as far as I'm concerned all of this heirarchy visualisation lives solely within Plans. If an epic has a parent link to an initiative and that data is sync'd to Roadmunk then the heirarchy doesn't matter.

Does that check out to anyone else or do you think a downgrade would impact that relationship between an epic and its parent?

William Chambers_fjnny1 · Answer

As far as I'm aware that heirarchy is only ever referrenced in the Plans functionality. The parent link field is not an advanced tier feature but just a field that Plans uses to identify the relationship.

I'd just turn it off and see what happens but that is a bit cowboy for my liking.

John Funk · Answer

Hi William,

There's a pretty good chance that you will lose the Parent Link capability if you downgrade. This is what it looks like in my non-Premium instance.