Jira work items rarely exist in isolation. As projects grow, relationships between epics, stories, bugs, tasks, and other work items can quickly become difficult to follow. Finding the right links, understanding dependencies, and updating multiple relationships can require a lot of manual work.
Advanced Link Manager for Jira gives teams a centralized way to explore, filter, visualize, and manage linked work items directly in Jira. The app is available across Global View, Project View, and Work Item View, making it easier to work with relationships wherever you need them.
With the Global View, you can get a broader view of linked work items across your Jira instance. Use advanced filters to focus on the information that matters, including status, link type, work item type, priority, and more. You can also use JQL or existing saved Jira filters to refine your results.
Need to understand deeper relationships? The Global View supports up to six hierarchy levels, with options to expand and collapse levels as you navigate complex structures.
Every team works with relationships differently. Advanced Link Manager lets you customize how linked work items are displayed.
You can highlight your own work, high-priority work items, or recently changed work items, and group results by link type, assignee, priority, status, or work item type.
You can also choose which fields appear in the table, reorder columns, and edit work item fields directly from the table using inline editing.
One of the key capabilities of Advanced Link Manager is Compose Tree.
Instead of relying on a fixed structure, you can create your own hierarchy for displaying linked work items. Define the levels you need, save your structures, and load them whenever you want to reuse a specific view. You can also return to the default structure at any time.
This is particularly useful when different teams need different ways to understand complex relationships.
Understanding relationships is only part of the job. Advanced Link Manager also helps you take action.
From the Global View, you can perform bulk operations such as changing link types or deleting multiple links at once, reducing the need to update relationships one by one.
Additional display controls let you show or hide child work items, work items without links, and apply filters to descendants and linked work items when needed.
Advanced Link Manager is designed to fit naturally into different Jira workflows:
Global View : Explore and manage linked work items across your Jira instance.
Project View : Focus on relationships within a specific project.
Work Item View : Work directly with the links and relationships of an individual work item.
This flexibility means you can move from a broad overview to a specific work item without changing tools.
Whether you are tracking dependencies, reviewing hierarchies, investigating connections, or updating large numbers of links, Advanced Link Manager for Jira gives you the visibility and controls to work with relationships more efficiently.
With flexible views, powerful filtering, customizable hierarchies, and bulk actions, you can turn complex work item relationships into a clearer and more manageable part of your Jira workflow.
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