How to import sub-tasks if I don't know the parent id?

[Rozalyn]

I have already created tasks in Jira and would now like to import sub-tasks. Is it possible to do this, given that I don't know the parent id of the existing tasks?

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

No.

Sub-tasks have to have a parent. If you don't know the parent, you can't create them because you can't specify the parent.

[Rozalyn]

And from what I've been able to read online, there is no way to determine or assign a parent id for a story after the story has already been created. Is that correct?