Child Items

Child items give a template its own checklist of work. An onboarding template, for example, can add a task for each step, each with its own assignee and due date.

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Adding child items

1. Open the template and scroll to Child items.
2. Click Text child to write a summary and description, or Child from a template to reuse another template.
3. Optionally add Assignee, Due date, Priority or Labels to a child.
4. Reorder with the arrows, remove with the bin.

On a child from a template, a field set here is used instead of that template's own.

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What they become

Parent	Children are created as
Task, story or bug	Sub-tasks
Epic	Tasks, with the epic as their parent
Sub-task	Not possible: a sub-task can't have children

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When they're created

• Create work item from template, which lists them before you press Create
• Apply template on a work item
• Every run of the Scheduler, including Run now

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Good to know

• Jira's own Create dialog can't add work items, so auto-apply fills in the parent only.
• A template can have up to 30 child items.
• Children don't copy the parent's fields; anything they don't set gets the space's default.
• If a space refuses one of a child's fields, the child is created without it and the result says so.

Related

• Templates
• Creating work