🍂🎃 Apptoberfest 2025: See the Full Traceability Picture with Links Explorer

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🍻 Hey everyone — Apptoberfest 2025 is here, and so is your Jira sanity saver: Links Explorer 

Ever opened a Jira work item and thought:
“Wait… how is THIS linked to THAT… and why is there a sub-sub-task from 2019 involved?”
Yeah. We’ve all been there.

That’s exactly why Links Explorer exists
If your teams wrestle with end-to-end traceability, work item webs, or surprise dependencies hiding three levels deep — this app cleans it up without the spreadsheet chaos.

What It Actually Does

Gives you a full visual map of multi-level relationships — so you can track impact, hierarchy, and linked work items instantly, inside Jira.

Key Features That Teams Use Daily

• Hierarchy & link visualization across parents, children, and custom work item types
• One-click multi-level navigation (no more “open in new tab” loops)
• Traceability mode for QA, planning, audits, and impact checks
• Filters + search to isolate what matters
• Use conditional formatting to instantly spot risks, gaps, and priorities in your traceability reports

Why Teams Love It 

Real world Example

A requirement changes → Links Explorer instantly shows every downstream story, task, or test affected. No spreadsheets. No digging. No guessing.

Demo Video

If this solves a traceability challenge you face, give it a try and support it this Apptoberfest

Try Links Explorer — Traceability & Hierarchy now!

Question for the Community

What’s the most complex link chain you’ve had to trace in Jira?

[Tim W]

This is heaven-sent good UX, sometimes I can go into a loophole of linked tickets into bigger screens and forget where I actually started from. This is awesome.

[Jens Schumacher - Released_so]

Hey @Shivam Sharma - Optimizory I've added your demo to the unofficial Apptoberfest board, to make it easier to browse this year's submissions.