Under stories can I have Tasks or only subtasks are allowed?

[Raj Souda]

Under stories can I have Tasks or only subtasks are allowed? I was unable to create a Task under a story , only able to create subtask

Does the Cloud version support creating Tasks under Stories or only allows creation of the Subtasks?

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi

Under a standard issuetype (Story or something else) you can have any sub_task issuetype. So you cannot have Story and Task under it.

By design JIRA Software support the following hierarchy:

Epic

| Story or Task

    | Sub-Task

You can add level above Epic if you have Advanced Roadmap but cannot alterate the core Hiearchy between Epic to Sub-Task.

[Florian Bonniec]

You can create your own hierarchy to represent what you want using custom links but I do not recommend it.

If you want to create a issue link between Story and Task and say that' s a hierachy you can then you will need apps such as Structure for JIRA to display it. But keep it mind that the tool do not expect that so you may have side.