Why do my changes disappear after committing?

[Caryl Pugh]

I have a number of existing JIRA projects that have been pulled into a new plan. One of those projects holds the initiatives for the program.

With scope set to epic I can start setting the initiative for all my epics. When I commit the changes the content of the initiative column disappears.

If I look at the epics they all have parent link set to the correct initiatives but it is not shown on scope.