How can I show stories without a parent-feature under a placeholder-feature in a structure?

Question

Hi,
I have a structure with all my features and their children like this:

* Feature1* Story 1
* Story 2

* Feature 2* Story 3

* ...

Now I have several stories that are not related to a feature or something else.
But I want to shown them in this structure.

For now I show them on the same level as the features like:

* Feature1* Story 1
* Story 2

* Feature 2* Story 3

* Story 4
* Story 5

But this is inconsistent.

My goal is to have something like a virtual feature/placeholder as you can see it sometimes in other paces like "Independent", where all my stories without a feature/parent are placed.
But without having a relation between those stories and this feature-placeholder.

* Feature1* Story 1
* Story 2

* Feature 2* Story 3

* Independent* Story 4
* Story 5
* ...

Is that somehow possible?

Bastian_d06bzl · Answer

Hi Stepan,

thanks for your answer.

But the main idea is to have NO relation betweem thoses stories and a feature.

So I want to show all stories WITHOUT a feature under a placeholder-feature.

I send the question to your support-portal. Thanks.

Stepan Kholodov · Answer

Hello @Bastian

If Stories are linked to their parent Features with a Jira link, then you can try this approach:

1. Add Stories to your structure first by an Insert generator.
2. Group them by the Issue Links... generator by selecting the link type and direction that connects Stories with Features.

As a result, Features should appear above their child Stories and Stories without any link should appear in the 'No links' group which can act as a described separator.

I hope this helps. If you need further assistance, please reach out to us directly at our support portal and we'll get back to you shortly.

Best regards,
Stepan
Tempo (the Structure app vendor)