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Is it possible to configure an issue in the hierarchy to have two parents?

Zara Hughes February 23, 2023

Is it possible to configure advanced roadmap issue hierarchy to allow an epic to have a choice of two parents issue types?

I want to be able to create plans for strategic cross team initiatives (where we have a issue type of 'initiative' as well as plan for tribes, where we are reporting on delivery of OKRs.

So Ideally I would want an epic to be able to have a parent of an initiatives or as an objective, depending on the plan/report I am building.

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Barnali Putatunda
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February 23, 2023

Hi Zara,

Yes, above Epic, you can map multiple issuetypes in same level of hierarchy. Then you can choose whether the epic to be a child of issuetype A or B.  You can set it in Portfolio Issue hierarchy .

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Barnali

Björn Gullander
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February 23, 2023

You can only have one parent connection per issue though. You need to decide if it should be connected to an Initiative or an Objective. 

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Zara Hughes February 23, 2023

Thanks very much for your help! I have managed to sort it.

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Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
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February 23, 2023

Hi @Zara Hughes

as already mentioned, you can always only have one parent in Advanced Roadmaps - you can, however, have as many issue links as you want, e.g. using an is parent of / is child of issue link type.

As an issue link can represent any connection between two issues, Jira won't understand such links as a parent/child relationship. There are, however, a number of hierarchy-focused apps on the Atlassian Marketplace that can do so. I can only speak for the app that my team is working on - JXL for Jira - but here, your use case would be trivial to implement. Pay attention to epic WORK-142:

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Depending on your configuration, it's either a child of OKR-1, or a child of Initiative WORK-161. Our epic is connected to both of them via issue links.

For some more context, JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including the support for configurable issue hierarchies, sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

As mentioned above, there may be other apps that can help with that, too. You may already know that you can trial any app for free for 1 month, and depending on the size of your size, it may be free forever. So if an app is an option for your, perhaps try a few and see which works best for you.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

Zara Hughes February 27, 2023

Thanks very much for your support Hannes, this is very helpful.

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Margo Sakova - OKR Board for Jira by Oboard
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February 17, 2024

Hi @Zara Hughes 

Is the two-parent approach to the issue hierarchy working out for you?

I've just covered some alternatives like Jira OKRs setup in Product Discovery, within a custom cascading field, and a couple of others. Would love to hear your thoughts!

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