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The direction is not a meaningful attribute for core links. It is simply a handful way to make links easily readable and therefore they are brings some arbitrarity when a new link type is created. However, the direction is a critical concept in Links hierarchy since it only rewarded linked issues contribute to their ancestors in the hierarchy and finally the root issue.

To avoid organizations from reconfiguring core lin types directions in Jira, a new feature is supported from the 5.3.0 version: Reversed links. It allows switching link directions with a single click. This change has an internal impact only. They are reversed in Links Hierarchy only and remain unchanged for the rest of Jira and other-third party apps.

For example, Atlassian Jira Software supports splitting issues from the backlog. However, the link direction is not expected by Links Hierarchy and, therefore, the split issues do not contribute to their ancestors' progress:

This can be resolved now by reverting the links to the expected configuration:


This new feature allows you to decide in which direction the links contribute to the progress roll up.

Let's see an example:

from a board, you can split an issue...


You will notice that split issues do not contribute to the original issue. However, they should contribute.


The cause is that "Links Hierarchy" sum in "inward" directions. If we look at the link "Split issue" of Jira...


You can tell "Links Hierarchy" to reverse the link address


You will be able to obtain the expected result


The direction is switched in Lins Hierarchy:

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