Parent/Child requirements and Issue Links

Isabel L
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August 13, 2024

How are Child requirements different than Issue Links and when should we use one over the other?

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Victor Law
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August 13, 2024

Hi @Isabel L

Welcome to the community!

Parent and child Jira issue is more like a hierarchy structure and relationship between the Jira issues.

Here is a basic example of the hierarchy structure:
Epic > Story > Sub-task

Perhaps you may refer to the following document to understand more about the Jira hierarchy:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-the-issue-type-hierarchy/

Issue Links are more flexible and establish relationships between issues that do not necessarily follow a hierarchical structure.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-linking/

Thank you.

Isabel L
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August 14, 2024

How should we ogranize the parent/child or issue links so that the tree view can also be useful?

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