Can you create a Story and add "TASKS" (not subtasks)?

[Shirlyna Richter]

Im attempting to add a Story and want to add Tasks underneath with subtasks after that.  Im finding that this is not possible.  Am I doing something wrong?  We are JIRA Cloud users.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

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No.  Sub-tasks are the only way to break up your issues into fragments.

In a team-managed project, you can only define a single sub-task type, but in company-managed projects you can create many types with different names.

[Ste Wright]

To add to this, I would consider why you need to break Stories into Tasks, then further into Sub-tasks.

This is more of a process or ways of working thought, but Stories are usually a couple of days of work, with Sub-tasks breaking them into their component parts.

What's the use case to go even further than that?

Ste

[Laurie Sciutti]

Hi @Shirlyna Richter ~ to add to Nic's comment, you can link your Tasks to the Story (using "Relates to" link type or possibly even "blocked by" for dependencies).  HTH