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New Related Work Items layout

James Rickards _SN_

I've just noticed a new view for Child Work Items, and it's getting much hate from our users.

We predominately use issue links, and don't use subtasks nor the parent/child hierarchy.

Currently when opening a work item, you no longer see linked work items and subtasks in a separate panel. Atlassian is now grouping these panels together so you can only see one or the other. They have defaulted to show child work items (always empty), which means that we now need to click to show linked work items (always populated).

My question is whether this is bothering anyone else? Does anyone know of a way to change the default to show Linked Work Items rather than Child work items?

Accepted answers

James Rickards _SN_

I've worked with someone from Atlassian support and it looks like this obscuring of linked work items in preference to the parent/child hierarchy is here to stay: "This is designed to present linked work items in a compact tabular view aligned with the Child Work Items table, making navigation easier." and "This feature was introduced to help users manage linked work more quickly and with fewer errors by allowing inline updates instead of opening individual issues. I believe this improvement is intended to remain part of the product."

Atlassian Support has created two feature requests where we can voice our thoughts on this:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-97455 - Main issue about obscuring data
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-97454 - Workaround to improve the view if 97455 is not actioned.

This is where you should for and share your feedback.

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Marc -Devoteam-

Hi @James Rickards _SN_

Does this involve the "Related Work" section.

This is a rolling out feature.

This has als been in the latest update, https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/blog/2026/02/atlassian-cloud-changes-jan-26-to-feb-2-2026

Kelly Lillis_2bm82m

@James Rickards _SN_ It's driving me nuts and I keep thinking we don't have linked work items when we do. Has anyone found a way to make it default to links instead of sub tasks? Or at least make it clear that links are there when defaulting to sub tasks.

James Rickards _SN_

I assumed so when I read that.

I was unable to find any of Atlassian's usual change announcement articles to post feedback against, hence I posted this question.

If I don't get a reply, I'm going to call support. It's that annoying!

Marc -Devoteam-

Hi @James Rickards _SN_

Lately not every changes is mentioned in an article, sometimes this is annoying.

Even small changes on UI of function can have a major impact.

Kelly Lillis_2bm82m

Please give us a way to change the default! We don't use sub tasks and it's super frustrating to have that in my face and have to remember how to find links.

Marc -Devoteam-

Hi @James Rickards _SN_

Use the help menu and the provide feedback option to let Atlassian know your thoughts about this chnage.

Here on the public forum, this will likely not be "read" as feedback on this change.

Lieuwe Wildschut

I fully agree, we are having the same problem. Very frustrating change with no obvious workaround it seems.

Lieuwe Wildschut

This is very very frustrating. This is highly disruptive to our way of working and is generating a lot of complaints from our development team.

James Rickards _SN_

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-97455 - Main issue about obscuring data
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-97454 - Workaround to improve the view if 97455 is not actioned.

This is where you should for and share your feedback.

James Rickards _SN_

Thanks @Marc -Devoteam- . See accepted answer and link to Feature Requests.

James Rickards _SN_

See my accepted answer.

Bertrand D

I hate also, how can we come back to previous view?

James Rickards _SN_

Hi @Bertrand D ,

I raised a ticket with Atlassian support, and they reverted the change on our instance to buy us time until it either becomes mandatory, or they design/code an alternative/fix.

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