Our very large organisation has created an incredibly restrictive jira where we are not allowed to use initiatives, and sub tasks dont have any of the requred statuses.
So we only have epic and stories, two levels of hierarchy for our large project.
I have seen it mention that tasks can have parent/child tasks.
How is this done, and can it be done for epics or stories?
It is very understandable that you have not seen this option. Jira (on a standard or free plan) does indeed have a limited issue hierarchy, as you describe consisting of only 3 levels:
1️⃣ Epic
2️⃣ All standard issue types (story, bug, task, ...)
3️⃣ All sub-task issue types
On a premium plan (which your company probably does not offer you) additional levels can be added above the epic level, but inserting different levels inside Jira's default hierarchy is not possible out of the box.
There are Marketplace apps that offer flexible hierarchy structures, often leveraging issue links in Jira to create the levels you want. These apps are commercial, so you will have to raise the need internally with your Jira admins as well to move forward.
Hope this helps!
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