How to create Sub-task in Jira

[KP11]

I looked at the DOC and it says under the MORE tab there should be a Create Sub Task Selection. We do not have that selection available. I saw a column for subtasks but its blank. Jira 5.2

We confused Issue Links with sub tasks. What are we doing wrong?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You probably have no sub-task types in the issue-type scheme (it's also possible to turn them off completely, but the default is to have them enabled).

Go to the project, admin, and look for the issue-type scheme. Add a sub-task type to it (remember that this can affect many projects though)

[codelab expert]

Hi Nic, same time -same answer :-)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yup :-) Oops. Still, makes the point :-)

[Iain Smith]

I'm suffering from the same issue on my Agile project.

The issue type appears to be within my scheme, and I can create sub-tasks if I select this as the type when in the backlog view, but I'm not given the choice to add subtasks to existing Tasks or Stories.

Can anybody help?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Probably the same answer by the sound of it. I suspect you have added an issue type called something like "sub task", but you have added it as a standard issue type and not an actual sub-task. Go to the project and find the "issue type scheme". Go into that and have a look at the list of types. Do ANY of them have "(sub task)" written next to them (in quite small writing)?

[codelab expert]

Did you assign the issue type "sub-task" to your project? If not this could be the reason why it is not available in your menu.