1 accepted. you can achieve this by adding to the Create transition a Copy field value from linked issues post-function, selecting the field to copy and "belongs to Epic" as the Issue Link Type: Thanks, man it worked, I tried this before but Issue link type I have selected the wrong value. Very cool. However, if I understand that right, that New Action - Create Sub-task. Name the sub-task whatever you need to. If you want to use a smart value check out here; You can also add other fields here, so if you want to assign all the tasks to a person just click the "add fields" select the field you want to add, and include the value you want to put in that field. Save In order to create a subtask you need first get into the content of the parent Jira issue. For example in the following screen you have several options to create a subtask: You can click on Create subtask action and it will show up the Subtasks section with the default subtask type, where you can enter the summary. Clones task from current project to epic in another project. 2. Sets up some specific link type between them. We have two projects - Product and Development. Our workflow is next: devs pick tasks from Product project and create associated epics in their Development project (then they break down them to their development tasks and subtasks Jira Software's hierarchy is Epic -> Story - Sub-task, and that is fixed. Projects are not relevant to the hierarchy because Epics are expected to go across projects. If you add Advanced Roadmaps or other scaling apps, you can extend that upwards, putting layers above Epic. If you do that, then you can rename Epic to Feature, to make the naming By default, Jira is set up with 3 levels of issue type hierarchy: Epic (level 1), Story (level 0) and Sub-Task (level -1). You can modify these levels to better reflect how your teams work. Rename a hierarchy level. To rename a level in your issue type hierarchy: Click the level name that you want to rename. y5A0b. The issuetypes come in three hierarchical flavors: Epic. Story, Task. sub-task. you can create new issue types that equate to level 2 or 3 (story/task or sub-task). So your Feature could be at level 2. You can’t create another level. Here are your options: Epic that have Features which then have sub-tasks. Meantime, I have created Initiatives in Jira and was trying to link epics to the newly created Initiatives. If Jira allows creating an Inititive as a higher level in hierarchy above Epic, then there should be an easy way to link epics to a parent Initiative just like stories can be linked to a parent epic, without using Portfolio. Tiru Naidu Oct 02, 2023. There are two ways this can be achieved. 1)By clicking on the Epic, Story, Task, Sub task,bug, it will show the of change issue type and select the type and it get converted immediately. 2) on the right corner and click on move option, then select type and continue until the last step. Reply. Issues at that standard level can have sub-tasks, but they can not contain issues at the same level. The "epic link" field makes it look like the Epic contains the stories, but it's not a parent/child relationship like issue-subtask is. To create an issue in an Epic in the main JIRA UI, create it via the usual "create issue" and fill in the List of Jira Issue Types: Jira Issue types are listed as follows: Story, Task, Bug, Epic, Service, Incident, Problem, Change, Post-incident review, Service request with approvals, and Claim. 1. Task: A task is an item or work that requires completion. Specific activities that shouldn’t take more than one working day are planned using tasks. Simply put, ZenHub Epics are a theme of work which contain several sub-tasks needed to complete the larger goal. How to create epics in GitHub. 1. Add existing GitHub issues to a new epic. When creating a new issue, you’ll notice a purple button: “Create Epic”. It’s a magical portal to the new Epic Builder:

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