I can't add a Jira Product Discovery issue to be a parent of Jira Software issue

Ayelet Ben-Tzur
Contributor
April 17, 2024

Hello,

When I try adding a Jira Product Discovery issue as a parent, Jira simply can't find it (and there's no permission problem). Any idea if this can be done?

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Mart Postma
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April 17, 2024

Hi Ayelet,

That is unfortunately not possible. If you would like to link a JPD issue to a Jira Software issue, then you need to use the "Link issue" button in Jira Software.

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Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
Atlassian Partner
April 17, 2024

Hi @Ayelet Ben-Tzur

as already suggested, this doesn't seem possible at the time - you'll need to use issue links to model a parent/child relationship.

The big downside is that - since issue links can represent any relationship between two issues - Jira doesn't really recognise them as parent/child relationships across its views. This being said, if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, there are apps available that can help with that.

Just to give an example, this is how this could look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira:

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For context, JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues 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 support for (configurable) issue hierarchies. The issue hierarchies can be based on Jira's built-in parent/child relationships (like parent), and/or issue links of configurable issue link types. In the above clip, I'm using a is parent of / is child of issue link to connect ideas to their parent epics.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

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