How To Link Task To Story In Jira

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If you are using Atlassian’s Jira software to manage projects, you are likely familiar with its effectiveness in simplifying your working process. This article will guide you in connecting tasks to stories in Jira, a highly beneficial tool for monitoring progress and establishing specific, achievable goals.

Why Link Tasks to Stories?

In Agile project management, stories represent a high-level requirement of the project or feature, while tasks are the smaller pieces of work that need to be completed to fulfill that story. By linking tasks to stories, you create a visual and structured trace of what work contributes to which objectives. This helps teams to stay focused, organized, and efficient.

Steps to Link Task to Story in Jira

1. Navigate to the Task

The first step is to navigate to the task that you want to link to a story. Once you have your task open, you will find several options in the drop-down menu at the top right of the screen. Find and click on the ‘More’ button.

2. Select ‘Link’

After clicking on ‘More’, a drop-down list will appear. From this list, select the ‘Link’ option. This will open a new dialog box.

3. Specify the Link Type and Destination

In the dialog box, you’ll need to specify the Link Type and the Destination. In the ‘Issue’ field, you’ll need to enter the ID of the story you want to link this task to.

4. Click on the ‘Link’ Button

After filling out the necessary information, click the ‘Link’ button at the bottom of the dialog box.

Code Snippet for JIRA API

If you want to link a task to a story programmatically, you may use the JIRA API. Below is a Python example of how you can do this using the jira-python client library. 

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        from jira import JIRA
        # establish a connection to JIRA
        jira = JIRA(basic_auth=('email', 'api_token'), options={'server': 'https://your_jira_instance'})
        # get the issues
        task = jira.issue('TASK-1')
        story = jira.issue('STORY-1')
        # link the task to the story
        link = jira.create_issue_link('Relates', task, story)
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The above code connects to your JIRA instance using your email and API token, retrieves the task and story issues, and then creates a link between them. Replace ’email’, ‘api_token’, ‘your_jira_instance’, ‘TASK-1’, and ‘STORY-1’ with your actual values.

Conclusion

Linking tasks to stories in Jira provides a clear and organized way to track progress on your project. Whether you prefer a manual method or a programmatically method through the JIRA API, the process is straightforward and efficient.