How to make sub tasks not be counted as part of the issue backlog

[Srividhya Prakasam]

Right now sub tasks are taken into account while numbering the backlog items. How to avoid this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

As there is no "numbering of the backlog items" in Jira, I am a bit lost as to what your question is here.  Could you explain what you are seeing and why you don't want it in more detail?

[Srividhya Prakasam]

Thanks for your quick response. By numbering, I mean the issue ID. I want the issue ID to be generated for each of the issues added to backlog. I dont want the ID to be generated for the sub-tasks created under a given issue. Is this possible?  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.  Every issue needs a unique ID otherwise you can't identify it.  Jira has a simple "use next free number in the project" scheme to generate these numbers.

[Srividhya Prakasam]

Many thanks Nic. I understand the rationale however is there any setting/plugin that will help in addressing our Organisation's requirement?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I do not know what your organisation's requirement is.  Your original question was about dropping unique identifiers for issues (which I had to oppose because without unique IDs, I can't see a way to point at a unique item).

Could you explain what the organisation's "requirement" is?

[Babu Rajaram]

[Babu Rajaram]

Hi Nic,

Attached a SS for your reference below. As we want to establish Work Breakdown Structure(Coding, Testing, Code review, Test Case review) for an Issue(SWOR-7), thought of achieving this via Sub-Tasks(SWOR-13 and SWOR-14) created for this Issue. However the newly created Sub-Tasks results in loading the Backlog. Our Organization requirement is we do not want the Sub-Tasks to be counted as a Backlog item and is there any alternate way via Free plugins to achieve this. Thanks in advance.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This has nothing to do with sub task numbering - could you ask a new question?  (Although as a pre-answer, sub-tasks are not counted as backlog items already, so please make sure you explain how you have included them, and why you don't just turn that function off!)