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Assign a Task Issue to an Epic Issue of a different Project

Dimitris Morogiannis January 9, 2024

I would like to ask if there is a way to do the following:
The hierarchy of our Issue Types in Jira Work Management is: Epic -> Task -> Subtask.

If you create an Epic Issue in Project A and a Task Issue in Project B.
Can you match the Task Issue of Project B with the Epic Issue of Project A (Project's A Epic Issue -> Project's B Task Issue), using an App or something like that?

The same question could apply if we swap the Epic Issue with a Task Issue of Project A and the Task issue with a subtask issue of Project B.

As I found out Jira Work Management doesn't provide such a functionality and the Link feature doesn't cover our particular need.

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Walter Buggenhout
Community Champion
January 9, 2024

Hi @Dimitris Morogiannis ,

While I am not entirely sure what you mean by match and swap, you can connect a task in project B as a child issue to an Epic in project A, as you can see in this screenshot:

Screenshot 2024-01-10 at 08.26.48.png

As you can also see, the parent field is used to link the issues together.

Sub-tasks - afaik - are always in the same project as their parent task.

Hope this helps!

Dimitris Morogiannis January 10, 2024

Thank you @Walter Buggenhout
Indeed I had missed the Parent field which satisfies our needs.

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Ajay _view26_
Community Champion
January 10, 2024

@Dimitris Morogiannis ,

@Walter Buggenhout  has covered all the points which you have mentioned.. but I am curious to know why you are saying " Link feature doesn't cover our particular need."  except that you cant link sub-tasks from Project to another.

Cheers

Ajay

Dimitris Morogiannis January 10, 2024

Thank you for your answer @Ajay _view26_ 
We wanted to use the functionality of the Parent so that we can have a clear view of the hierarchy of some Issues that existed in different projects.

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