Upcoming - Rename ‘epics’ in your company-managed projects

[Ronke]

@Rohan Swami i will like to create a support case - please how do I do that? Thanks

[Rohan Swami]

@Ronke I've sent you a direct email.

@Nouman Riaz I've shown the summary, description and name fields below

[Mike Vitale]

Hello. I've recently noticed that when in an epic issue view, and creating a child issue, it allows me to select task, story or initiative. Initiative is the highest level in our issue type hierarchy meant to only reside above the epic, and not as a child issue of an epic. Is there any way to control this?

[Alexandre Krammel]

Although it is not yet possible to create a second Issue Type as an Epic Type, it is possible to have at the Issue Hierarchy Levels (for Advanced Roadmaps), more than one Issue Type per Level.

So one of them could be the "System Epic Type" and the other ones inevitably will be of Issue/Base Type.

If I have a second Issue Type in the Level 1 Hierarchy, what kind of functionally, like Kanban Views, that would not work for this non-Epic Issue Type, that works for the only-one-Epic Issue Type? 

[Sara Wortman]

Does Atlassian have an estimate for when in 2023 this feature will be available for Cloud users?

[Bharati Susarla]

Hello @Rohan Swami , Thankyou for the updates provided above and I am wondering if these are  now in place? Is there any way that we can speak to someone from your support team to answer questions, as we are trying to figure out how to set up hierarchies in the trial Premium version? I am finding wading through all the documentation quite time consuming and a little confusing and it would be helpful if I can speak to someone directly. Is that possible at all? Thankyou once again.

[Bhish]

Hi, is there an issue to track the progress of these features and expected release date? This post is nearly a year old so its hard to tell what is released and what is not. The post mentions:

The name of the epic on the board and backlog will now use the epic’s Issue summary

It doesn't seem to be that this has been released yet.

Roadmap View

An additional question, will Atlassian also be releasing changes to the Roadmap view alongside the issue hierarchy customisation? It is nice to be able to have more control and create more hierarchies, but visualisations tools need to evolve in-line with this too to make the feature useful in my opinion.

Thanks @Rohan Swami 

[Kate West-Walker]

Hi @Sara Wortman, unfortunately we can't give any further details than 2023 at this stage. You can get information on when this feature has shipped by checking the public roadmap here: https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap/cloud??&search=epic&p=c0c344ce-98 . We'll also be sure to post here when we release the changes. We do have a beta currently available though, details here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Upcoming-Rename-epics-in-your-company-managed-projects/bc-p/2119375#M7131

@Bharati Susarlathese changes haven't shipped just yet. Feel free to raise a support ticket to chat with one of our support team, who can give you a hand with configuring your issue hierarchy in premium.

@[deleted]we don't currently have changes to the roadmap view planned to go out with these hierarchy configuration changes.

[Bharati Susarla]

Thankyou @Kate West-Walker 

[Colton_Kosicek]

When is this planned to be released? I thought this was Oct 31st release but i am not able to make the configurations as these documentation shows and reflect the changes.

[Tim Hargan]

Currently under standard I can only see Epic and Stories in Confluence when creating an issue from my pages.  Will I be able to also create other issue types in this hierarchy?  Currently I cant create subtasks etc... so this would be very useful

[Stéphane Veraart]

Hello Rohan,

I wanted to double check the timelines for the implementation of the above mentioned functionality. I am working with a client on finding a solution for exactly these questions, but now Advanced Roadmaps in Premium doesn't even allow creating issue type levels above Epic anymore - so this seems rather the opposite direction than expected. What is the current status?

[MrsTwoCats]

We have a Cloud instance where we have taken advantage of this new feature (and very nice it is too!).  We have renamed Feature to Epic to take advantage of Advanced Roadmaps.

We now have to migrate projects from our Server instance where Epic are still the old Epic.  We'd planned to use the migration tool and are wondering what will happen to the Epics and Features from our Server projects as we bring them into a Cloud instance with the new feature in place.

Some advice would be appreciated.

[Daniel Capizzi]

Hi @Colton_Kosicek and @Stéphane Veraart, we're currently expecting to roll these changes out sometime in 2023. We'll be posting here on the Atlassian Community when we release these changes, and you can also keep an eye on the public roadmap here for information on shipping dates: https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap/cloud??&search=epic&p=c0c344ce-98

There is a beta available for customers who wish to start using some of the features described here, however there are some functionality restrictions for joining this. Details can be found here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Upcoming-Rename-epics-in-your-company-managed-projects/bc-p/2119375#M7131

[Daniel Capizzi]

Hi @Tim Hargan, thanks for bringing this to our attention! I've had a quick look and you will be able to create any non-subtask issue type from the hierarchy using the "Create Issue"feature in Confluence. Unfortunately it's not possible to create subtasks from Confluence

[Coco S Chaussée]

When will the Epic Panel and Epic Link renamed?

[Daniel Capizzi]

Hi @MrsTwoCats, so glad to hear you've enjoyed using the beta!

I've done a bit of investigation and performed a few test runs using the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant to copy some Server projects over to a Cloud instance with a renamed Epic level, and I can confirm that you should have no issues performing these migrations. Your standard Epics from Server will be moved over to Features on Cloud and all work as expected.

Please feel free to reach out to us in the Epic Renaming Beta Community Group if you do have any issues performing these migrations and we'd be happy to help out!

[Ronke]

Hi, @Rohan Swami please I need your help, is there a way to track when a ticket is moved back from one swim lane to the other? I mean when a ticket is pushed back from e.g UAT back to In Progress or TO DO. 

Also, I'm happy if anyone else can share. 

Thanks.

[Kate West-Walker]

@Coco S Chaussée we can't give a specific date just yet, but we'll be sure to update this blog when we do. Thanks for your patience! 

[Kate West-Walker]

Hi @Ronke - you should try watching an issue, which allows you to get email notifications when an issue is moved between statuses. If this doesn't solve it, feel free to ask a question on the community with some more details about what you're looking to do. 

[Su Wainwright]

Hi,

We have renamed our Epics to Features and have created an Epic Level above Feature and so far it looks good, but we've hit a snag.  We're getting 'Epic Name' required, when we try to create a Feature Issue.  This is going to be very confusing for our Users as we have an Epic Issue type above the Feature which doesn't need an 'Epic name'.   

The Epic Name field is 'locked' so I can't change it.

What can we do to sort this out?

[Rodolfo Romero - Adaptavist]

@Su Wainwright

This is because the Epic changes are not completed yet. Is my understanding that the change that will merge the "Epic Name" with the "Summary" will not happen until sometime in Q1 2023. In the meantime, your users will need to deal with the 2 fields and then when the Epic changes are completed, you won't need to do that anymore.

[Daniel Capizzi]

Hi @Su Wainwright

Could you please confirm that your site has been enrolled in the Epic Renaming Beta? These changes haven't been made generally available just yet, so the Epic Name field will still be required on most sites.

If you have been enrolled however then this field definitely shouldn't be required, so it would be great if you could get in touch with us in the Epic Renaming Beta Community with a bit more info so we can help sort this out! Please also note though: the beta doesn't support custom hierarchy levels, so it's not possible to have a level above your "Feature" level currently.

[Alex Ortiz]

Any updates on when this is going to be rolled out?

[Daniel Capizzi]

Hi @Alex Ortiz, we're expecting these changes to be rolled out sometime in 2023. More updates will be provided here on the Atlassian Community as we get closer to our release date, and you can also keep an eye on the public roadmap here for up to date shipping information: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Upcoming-Rename-epics-in-your-company-managed-projects/ba-p/1874726

We currently have a beta of these features available if you'd like to try them out - you can find some more details in this comment here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Upcoming-Rename-epics-in-your-company-managed-projects/ba-p/1874726/page/4#M7131