Can we have security level permission to view only parents and not children

[kiranmai c]

I have parent and children of issue type (task). I need only for few users to see the parents and not the children. How should is do this? Creating group works or should i also need have security permissions in place.

[John Funk]

Hi Kiranmai,

If you have sub-tasks as children then, no you will not be able to have separate issue security levels as the child sub-task inherits the level from the parent. Other parent/child relationships you could do separate levels with though - like with Epics and the children of epics. 

[agileautonomy]

Hi,

There are numerous ways to solve this in the Jira ecosystem.

1. You could use issue security schemes (a little cumbersome to implement)
2. Have a Jira project for the parents with appropriate project settings

Understanding the use case would help in choosing the best solution.

[kiranmai c]

Thank you for the response. i used security permission to implement my use case however, iam able to create security levels where Level 1 when selected - Shows both parent and children, Level 2 when selected for few tasks shows only children. But the user case is i need to show the parents only to a specific group and not child tasks. how can we achieve this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm afraid the response here is completely wrong.

Sub-tasks inherit their security level from their parent.  This is because sub-tasks are a part of their parent, not separate issues, and there's no value in being able to hide parts of an issue.