How to approach multi-level hierarchy in a Jira Cloud Premium project?

[Rajat Saxena]

Hello experts!

I have a requirement to setup a multi-level hierarchy for my project to structure something like this:

Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Level 3 -> Level 4 -> Level 5 -> Task

Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Level 3 -> Level 4 -> Task

Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Level 3 -> Task

Level 1 -> Level 2 -> Task

Level 1 -> Task

The above hierarchies represent possible links. Basically I need to create 5 custom hierarchy levels. Each level can either have level (N+1) OR a task as its child. A task will always be the last level.

I am using a premium license and creating company-managed projects. I would prefer not to use any plugins to support this since that does not align with my organization's plans at the moment.

Thanks,

Rajat.

[Vishal Biyani · Accepted solution]

@Rajat Saxena 

As you are having premium license, you can define issuetypes and consider them at a level above epic.

So if you create say Initiative, you can get hierarchy like

Initiative -> Epic -> StandardIssueType (Task) -> subTaskIssueTypes

In the parent field of Epic, you will need to specify issue key for initiative and so on and so forth.

if you don't want sub-tasks to be created in your project instance, you can disable creation of subtasks.

All this needs JIRA admin privilege.