Go to the story that you wish to add to the epic and follow these steps: Edit > Epic Link > Click the drop down and select the Epic Link that matches what you want. If Epic Link is not showing on the Configured Fields, follow these steps: Edit > Configure Fields (top right) > Select Epic Link. If Epic Link isn't shown, click "Where is my field 1. Pay for a third party app that will allow you to create issue templates. 2. Follow the guidance in this post t o create a custom Description-Template field where you can put your template text, and use automation to copy that text to the built-in Description field. Like • Sari likes this. Hi, In our Jira Instance, we create Stories and link them to Epic using the epic link. We create sub-tasks under each story and assign to various team members. We need to generate a report listing all sub-tasks, corresponding stories and corresponding Epics. I am able to generate a report listing all sub-tasks & corresponding stories using measure “Issue Parent Key”. However, I am not able Go to your group and from the left sidebar select Epics. Then select New epic . From an epic in your group, select Epic actions ( ). Then select New epic . From anywhere, in the top menu, select New…. ( ). Then select New epic . In an empty roadmap, select New epic . Enter a title. Ah, I see! That is not the way to convert a subtask type issue to a base level type issue. The hierarchy of issues is. Epics |-- base level type issues (Story, Bug, and usually one named Task) | subtask type issues (one by default named Sub-task) You can add more issue types with different names at the base level and the subtask level. How To Create a New Epic. Creating a new Epic in Jira is actually quite easy. You need to open the Roadmaps interface in your Jira and click the Create Epic button. You can then add new stories to L2QEKY. If you convert sub-tasks to stories, subtasks loose any connection to epic (parent epic link). Then you must put epic link manually again to stories. That is correct, you will have to roll-up those stories to your new EPICs (i.e. easily by using Scrum board by drag and drop in a batch mode). It will take proper planning. Go to issues > Search for issues. Enter this JQL into the advanced tab: issuetype = Epic and project = XYZ. Then hit the export button at the top right. Jack Brickey. Community Leader. Mar 29, 2018. and if you want all of the stories/tasks under the epics included in your export try this modified one. (issuetype = Epic or "Epic Link" is not There is no option there to create or convert subtask. Tzippy, Go to your ticket under MORE –> Convert to You can also convert a task to a sub-task the same way. How can I convert a bug into a task in Jira in this manner? There should be a “More” button in the problem. When you click the button, you should see an option to “Move 2 answers. When the issue (e.g. story) was part of the sprint, the 'sprint' field was set. After the move to Epic, this field is probably still set. So to empty the field you can add the field 'sprint' to the epic issue screen and then you can remove it from the sprint. In the backlog you will see the epics on the left side panel and not as So the enabler epic can be displayed separately. In your advanced roadmap plan as well you can use that custom field to create a view for those epics. Only Epic issue type will behave like an epic on boards and other places so creating a field is the simplest thing you can do. There is no way to do this.

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