Set up Jira Cloud
Learn how to set up Jira Cloud and integrate it with other products and applications.
This page refers to the advanced planning features that are only available as part of Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise.
A big problem for planners is that what you plan isn’t always what ends up happening. Instead of forcing you to manually update values of parent issues, you can tell your plan to infer values of parent issues based on those of the child issues. This is referred to as a roll-up.
From the View settings menu on your timeline, choose either option to infer a value:
Dates - includes start and end dates. Read more about how your plan rolls up dates
Others - includes estimation values, releases, sprints, and teams. Read more about how your plan rolls up estimates
Rolling up dates is a calculation that only exists for planning purposes in your plan. When you commit changes back to your Jira issues, these rolled-up values aren’t saved and the date field of your issue will be empty.
When a value is rolled up, your plan shows an arrow next to the value of the rolled-up field:
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