Parent & Advanced Hierarchy Roll-ups [Cloud]
About the Parent Field
CLOUD ONLY
In 2024, Atlassian replaced the “Epic link” and “Parent link” fields in Jira with a single “Parent” field, as customers wanted the ability to create issue hierarchies above the Epic level (i.e Features, Initiatives, and Themes).
With this rollout, we decided to enhance our support of this new Parent field in Custom Charts so you can better report on issues in these hierarchies.
What’s on this page?
Description of Parent Field Settings
Setting | Description | Options | Notes |
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| Allows you to disable/enable enhanced parent calculation and hierarchy filtering (the dropdowns that appear below it) | Toggle on or off | This is automatically enabled (green toggle) if “Parent” is selected for the Chart by or Group by value |
| Allows you to select which issue type should be at the Parent level | 
| You must click Update Preview in order to see the changes in the Live Preview 
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 | Allows you to customize the issue types to show and. hide within the hierarchy. |  Children checkbox: choose to select all or exclude all Children issue types Parents checkbox: choose to select all or exclude all Parent issue types
| You must click Update Preview in order to see the changes in the Live Preview 
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What do the enhancements mean for Custom Charts users?
This means better reporting around work structures in Jira. You now have more flexibility when it comes to building charts around issue hierarchies in Jira, as they are no longer limited to the typical levels of Epic → Story → Sub-task.