I want to be able to link sub-tasks to an epic.

[Ana Teixeira]

Epic link to Subtasks.jpgThis question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Managing your projects

Jira's current settings doesn't allow sub-tasks to be linked to an epic. This causes my numbers in the dashboard (Workload pie chart) to be incorrect when summing up hours by epic. Very inconvenient!

Is there a way to change the settings or even develop a script/ plugin to be able to select a epic link to sub-tasks?

I need this ASAP, the success of my project management depends on it.

Thank you,

Ana Teixeira

[Ana Teixeira]

Thank you, Nic!

It's good to know it's possible to do it at all. Now maybe someone will be able to confirm if it's possible on the cloud.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's two parts to this

1.  It's absolutely correct that a sub-task should not be assigned to an Epic.  A sub-task belongs to a parent, and hence belong to an Epic via that
2. It's absolutely a howling bug or flaw in JIRA that sub-tasks do not behave as though they belong to the same Epic as their parent

Yes, a few times I've scripted a field that echoes the actual epic on parent, epic and sub-task.  It works.  I am not sure you can do it on Cloud though.

[Deleted user]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

could you post the scripted field that shows the epic link from the subtask here?

Regards and thank you

Ricardo da Silva

[Deleted user]

Got it.

i used a scirpted field with an custom template:

#set ($issueLinkManager = $jirautils.loadComponent('com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.DefaultIssueLinkManager', $issue.getClass()))
#set ($parent = $issue.getParentId())
#foreach ($link in $issueLinkManager.getInwardLinks($parent))
#set($links = $link.getSourceObject().getSummary())
<a class="aui-label ghx-label-7" title="Follow link" href="/browse/$value"> $links </a>
#end

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLinkManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.IssueLink

def issueLinkManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueLinkManager()
def parent = issue.getParentId()

for (IssueLink link in issueLinkManager.getInwardLinks(parent)) {

return link.getSourceObject()

}

[Schuyler Bishop]

Hey Ricardo,

I set up a custom field using this script and it worked like a charm. Thanks! 

I have a follow-up question for you: I have an epic, a task linked to the epic, and a sub-task that inherited the epic key using your custom field. How do I filter for the sub-task in the issue navigator? I don't think this scripted field is JQL friendly. 

Thanks,

Schuyler Bishop

[Deleted user]

Hi Schuyler,

yes thats right but you can set your filter like
"Epic-link Sub-task" ~ "your Epic Name"
Than it should works

Regards

Ricardo

[Schuyler Bishop]

Success. Thanks, Ricardo! 

[Mike Glavatskykh]

Hey Ricardo, Schuyler!

This seems to be a solution for me as well. 

I'm a bit new in Jira admin, can you describe a bit more how you create this scripted field?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I think they installed ScriptRunner then created a scripted field with the code given above.

[Andrea Montali]

This seems to be for Jira Server.
How can I use it for jira cloud?
thanks Andrea

[Jar Lady]

How come are there 2 scripts for this? How to incorporate that into script runner?