Customize key value for subtask

[Jithesh]

Hi Team,

When I create an Task or a subtask, system automatically assign a Key.

for instance if my Project code is "ABC" then Key will be ABC-22 or ABC-34 etc.

I would like to know if i can customize they way key is generate for the subtaks.

Like if the Key for Task is ABC-34 then any subtask under the issue ABC-34 to be numbered as ABC-34-1 or ABC-34-a etc

This will visually help everyone in the team, to easily related to which Task the SubTask belongs to.

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jithesh ,

keys are automatically managed by Jira based an internal counter (stored for each project into the database) and you're not able to update it in any way.

Fabio

[Jithesh]

Thanks @Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_ 

[Bastian Stehmann · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jithesh ,

Thats not possible, the issue ids are always counted continuously. 

[Jithesh]

Thanks @Bastian Stehmann 

[Tony Hungate]

I understand this is how the software currently works, however, I completely understand the use case presented and have had very similar situations where this would come in very useful. 

How are feature requests submitted for JIRA? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can go to https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa

But in this case, I would not bother.

Atlassian are not going to spend years rewriting Jira to support a different way of keying sub-tasks, as there's no benefit in doing it.  They'd also have to impose that change on their partners who have written apps for Jira. 

The main reason for wanting this to make it a bit more obvious that the sub-task is part of a bigger issue.  Jira already displays the parent key in most places where the information that "this issue is part of that one" is useful, and they're improving on that.  They're also moving to make nesting issues more clear with only one place to look at the relationship (rather than the current three different Initiative contains Epic, Epic contains Issue, Issue is split into sub-tasks)