Add Linked Issues and Parents

Linking issues within your templates is a powerful way to establish relationships and improve visibility across your projects. Whether you’re connecting tasks to parent issues or linking related issues, this feature ensures your work stays organized and interconnected.

Add Issue Links

Connect related issues seamlessly within your template or to existing Jira issues, or enable dynamic linking for flexibility when applying the template.

1. Open the Template Editor.
2. Navigate to the issue within the template where you want to establish a link.
3. Select the “Linked Issues” field.
4. Choose one of the available linking options:
   • Link to Another Template Issue: Select an issue from within the template to create a connection.
   • Link to an Existing Jira Issue: Search for and select an existing issue in Jira.
   • Enable users to add Issue Links during issue creation: Allow users to define the linked issue when applying the template.
5. Save your changes to finalize the issue link configuration.
   

Note

You can add multiple issue links for a single issue and even add dynamic issue links if needed.

With these options, you can create static links for fixed connections or dynamic links for greater flexibility, tailored to your project requirements.

Add Parent Link

Establish clear parent-child relationships by linking issues within the template via the template issue hierarchy, setting a different issue as a fixed parent or letting users dynamically set parent links during template application.

1. Open the Template Editor.
2. Navigate to the issue within the template where you want to set a parent link.
3. Select the “Parent” field.
4. Choose one of the available options for setting the parent link:
   • Link to Another Issue: Select an existing issue as a parent.
   • Enable users to add Parent Link during issue creation: Allow users to define the parent issue when applying the template.
5. Save your changes to finalize the parent link configuration.
   

Note

You can only set one issue as a parent. There’s no multiple parent feature within Jira Cloud. If a parent is set dynamically, all other parent settings will be overwritten. Same applies if you set a fixed parent. In this case the issue hierarchy defined within the template will be ignored.

These options enable static parent-child relationships for predefined templates or dynamic parent assignment for adaptable workflows.