create subtask in epci

[Erik Boneschansker]

Hello there, we would like to know if it is possible to create a subtask in an epic. Now we make a task and convert it into a subtask but this is overdone work..

epic-> create sub-task in epic

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

No. The available associations are:

epic > story or task

Task or story > sub-task

[Erik Boneschansker]

May i ask why this is not a thing ? 
if a subtask is part of an epic you can fold the epic and not show the subtask but on a backlog you see all of the taskes.. that takes a lot of space while subtasks are part of the epic. See screenshot (you can fold the epic so it doesnt show the subtask but it still shows the tasks on the backlog)

[Erik Boneschansker]

[Jack Brickey]

Hi Erik, maybe I’m not following your question. While you can certainly have sub-tasks within an epic the “direct parent association” is to the task not the epic. For example you might see...

epic = ABC-123

   Task = ABC-124

      Sub-task = ABC-125

in the above ABC-124 has a parent of ABC-123 and ABC-125 Has a parent of ABC-124

now, I’m sort of puzzled by you screen shot and the source. Maybe a full screenshot would help me place into context.

[Erik Boneschansker]

here you see an unfold epic, but when a task-story is part of an epic.. it is not foldable.. is that even a word haha. 

[Jack Brickey]

i'm still confused by this. what this is appears to be showing is that you have sub-task under an epic w/o a parent story/task. The purple icon is generally the default for epic. can you confirm that is the case here. is "Jira inrichting" truly an epic? My epics always show in the sidebar not w/in the list. Is this a classic or next-gen project?

[Erik Boneschansker]

Correct, purple is Epic. Blue with a lock = subtask (normal blue = task) green = story.
This is classic cloud Jira software project. Its the backlog page.

example:

Epic 1
      - subtask 1
      - subtask 2
      - subtask 3
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4

This is how we would like it to be, but in an epic you cannot create a subtask, you can only create task-story's etc, But when you do that, they are shown below eachother and not as part of a epic like above.

[Erik Boneschansker]

You have a choice to choose if you want to show the epic in the sidebar or into the normal bord/list. We prefer it in the list but then the list will get sooooo long with all seperate tasks.. instead of sub-tasks