Create child issues on jira cloud via REST API

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Hello everyone

There is a REST API call to create an issue on Jira cloud, but can we create a child issue on Jira cloud via plugin? Is there some rest API call which include this feature for creating child issues?

Thank you

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Hi @Ivana1 ,

Regarding your query, by creating a “child issue”, do you mean creating a subtask for an issue or any other specific requirement you have for an issue. It will give a clarity if you could elaborate.

Cheers,
Shubham

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Not sub tasks, but for example epics should be child issues and while creating them the parent link will be the Feature issue. So the hierarchy is Feature → Epics. Also I want to create User Stories under the Epic, so some sort of hierarchy should be preserved while creating those child issues and their parent issues.

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Hi @Ivana,

Thanks for clarifying. According to the docs, it is mentioned

In a next-gen project any issue may be made a child providing that the parent and child are members of the same project.

In order to achieve that, while creating a issue you will have to mention a parent issue ID or key in the payload. If in case, it is not feasible or does not work in your case, you might have to create a custom issue link type to show a parent-child relationship and use the issue link API to create a relationship between any two issue.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Shubham

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Thank you for the response. I created an issue and specify the parent issue ID it and yes it is successful to create the child issue.

Thank you again.

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