Can I create a level below a subtask?

[Josreny Botardo]

Colleagues, this time I have a question with Jira Software, can I create a subtask level below? i.e. a subtask of a subtask? thank you

[Dave Rosenlund]

No to disrespect, @John Funk , but I disagree -- a little.

In fact, @Josreny Botardo, if you have a compelling use case, you can use Structure for Jira to create that "structure." Although, you probably want to create a custom issue type for that second subtask and a custom link type for linking that second "subtask" to the parent subtask.

However, John is right in that deviating from the expected Epic > Story > Subtask  hierarchy in Jira is something you need to think about carefully.  There are many built-in Jira features that will ignore this unexpected hierarchy.

I know this is confusing, but you can do this if you want to — and I know many companies that do this (or things like this). In fact, Structure was created due to a Jira enhancement request from someone asking for subtasks of subtasks in Jira, and Atlassian said, "no - we aren't going to do this."

Full disclosure:  I work for the company that makes Structure.

Hope this helps,

-dave

[John Funk]

No offense taken.  :-)

[Josreny Botardo]

@Dave Rosenlund  colleague can you tell me a manual where I can do this activity with structure please,

thanks a lot.

[Kathryn Vargas _Tempo_]

Hi @Josreny Botardo

Picking up on behalf of my colleague @Dave Rosenlund, here's the documentation on the feature that would allow you to build such a structure, but our Solutions Team (solutions@almworks.com) would be happy to work you through more specific examples. 

Hope this helps, 
Kathryn 

[John Funk]

Hi Josreny,

Nope - that's the lowest level. And you can't do a sub-task of a sub-task. 

[Josreny Botardo]

Good afternoon dear, do you know any solution or alternative for cases where a lower level of subtask is required? thank you

[John Funk]

No, so I wouldn't try to create that structure.  :-)

[Josreny Botardo]

don´t you worry thanks a lot @John Funk 

[John Funk]

Hey @Josreny Botardo  - Just following up on this since it's still open. Did you ever get a solution?