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

[Zara Hughes]

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.

[Barnali Putatunda · Accepted solution]

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 .




Regards,
Barnali

[Björn Gullander]

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. 

[Zara Hughes]

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

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Accepted solution]

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:

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]

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

[Margo Sakova - OKR Board for Jira by Oboard]

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!