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I agree that it is important for an defect to be able to become a subtask after creation. Having to delete and recreate the defect report just to parent it under a feature just is not a good work flow.
Possible workflows: subtask add allows for adding a defect #, e.g. add existing versus add new; a defect has a parent under this feature option; there is a nice drag and drop interface for auto-magically parenting.

Jon Lumpkin wrote:

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Another (which is a larger issue for us) is that if a user accidentally creates an issue they want to be a subissue as a 'normal' issue - they have to delete it and recreate it.

There's no need to delete and/or recreate.

You can access the issue, click "Update" than access the link "More" and fill the "Parent task" field.

If this solve your problem, please update this issue as "Resolved"

I hope so too. This works as we wanted, but would have never been able to find this otherwise. This is a great feature, but very hard to find!

That worked. And since it is not, hopefully, that common a workflow I am OK with the way to do it being also not that common. That being said I didn't find this either.

And as I said in #6405 having parenting activity reported in the activity report would be helpful

the process is working in principle.
it still would be easier to handle if doing such an interconnection would work when starting from the parent ticket as well.
thus a functionality like "add childs" would be quite fine and intuitive.