JIRA Hierarchy

[marti smith]

Can you structure the backlog to display Epics with stories beneath and subtasks under stories versus having to click on the story to view subtasks?

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @marti smith

welcome to the community!

to the best of my knowledge, you can't do that in the backlog view. For a view like this, you need some extra tooling.

• If you're on Jira Premium, you could have a look at Advanced Roadmaps. It will show your hierarchy just like you described, and IIRC should allow most if not all "backlog management" activities, like assigning a task to a sprint.
• There's a number of hierarchy-focused apps on the Atlassian Marketplace. The depth and breadth of functionalities obviously depends on the app, but most should be able to show you the epic / story / subtask hierarchy. I myself happen to work on such an app; I'll add more details below.
• There's also the new list view in Jira Work Management, but it doesn't work for Jira Software projects.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

To expand on the second point, this is how this would look in the app that my team is working on, JXL for Jira; TLDR: You can simply load your relevant issues into a sheet, enable the default issue hierarchy (that's just one click), and then start working on your issues much like you'd do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets - e.g., assign them to a sprint, do estimations, etc.:

 

As said above, there may be other apps that help with this, 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.

Any questions just let me know!