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I want to be able to link sub-tasks to an epic.

Ana Teixeira

Epic link to Subtasks.jpgThis question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Managing your projects

Jira's current settings doesn't allow sub-tasks to be linked to an epic. This causes my numbers in the dashboard (Workload pie chart) to be incorrect when summing up hours by epic. Very inconvenient!

Is there a way to change the settings or even develop a script/ plugin to be able to select a epic link to sub-tasks?

I need this ASAP, the success of my project management depends on it.

Thank you,

Ana Teixeira

Epic link to Subtasks.jpg

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's two parts to this

It's absolutely correct that a sub-task should not be assigned to an Epic. A sub-task belongs to a parent, and hence belong to an Epic via that
It's absolutely a howling bug or flaw in JIRA that sub-tasks do not behave as though they belong to the same Epic as their parent

Yes, a few times I've scripted a field that echoes the actual epic on parent, epic and sub-task. It works. I am not sure you can do it on Cloud though.

Ana Teixeira

Thank you, Nic!

It's good to know it's possible to do it at all. Now maybe someone will be able to confirm if it's possible on the cloud.

unknown

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

could you post the scripted field that shows the epic link from the subtask here?

Regards and thank you

Ricardo da Silva

unknown

Got it.

i used a scirpted field with an custom template:

#set ($issueLinkManager = $jirautils.loadComponent('com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager', $issue.getClass()))
#set ($parent = $issue.getParentId())
#foreach ($link in $issueLinkManager.getInwardLinks($parent))
#set($links = $link.getSourceObject().getSummary())
<a class="aui-label ghx-label-7" title="Follow link" href="/browse/$value"> $links </a>
#end

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLinkManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLink

def issueLinkManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueLinkManager()
def parent = issue.getParentId()

for (IssueLink link in issueLinkManager.getInwardLinks(parent)) {

return link.getSourceObject()

}

Schuyler Bishop

Hey Ricardo,

I set up a custom field using this script and it worked like a charm. Thanks!

I have a follow-up question for you: I have an epic, a task linked to the epic, and a sub-task that inherited the epic key using your custom field. How do I filter for the sub-task in the issue navigator? I don't think this scripted field is JQL friendly.

Thanks,

Schuyler Bishop

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