Let's see if this request makes it into the Guinness Book of Records for

"Oldest Jira Feature Request"!

Please add this

I needed this, and as we have Script Runner, was able to add a Custom Field Script to do it. I detailed it here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Adaptavist-questions/Custom-script-field-to-show-parent-Task-summary-in-a-filter-of/qaq-p/2064706

It's been almost 2 years since my last comment, so I feel it's ok to say again that my Google Chrome extension Jira on Fire adds this functionality for cloud-hosted* Jira until Atlassian add it in core (which I believe they should, I'd prefer not to have to use my chrome extension!).

The "Parent Summary" option addresses the issue mentioned by changing the id into the description and also making it a hyperlink to the relevant task.

There's no tracking or anything malicious of any kind in the extension - check for yourself as the source code is on github.

 * To enable on-prem Jira in a custom version of the extension, just add the domain name in the manifest

HTH

Upvoted, would really like to have this feature. It's hard to tell a report on sub-tasks what task/story they serve.

Upvoted! This seems like a simple change that would make a world of difference to the people who rely upon Dashboards.

This would really help me bring context of the parent task for subtask items when exporting data for reporting. These should be 2 different fields. "Parent task" field only brings subtask ID with link, no summary. A dedicated "Parent task summary" would do for me - as long as I can pull it in a report. 

In the result (list) of a filter, display Parent's Summary with Sub-Task's Summary should be nice.

Ex : 

Summary

Need to have perf tests run on build / Get CPU utilization

instead of 

FOO-123 / Get CPU utilization

The internal ID (FOO-123) is not really useful in my case. It even makes things less readable.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards

Danny

I agree this should be changed in core functionality, but a bump that this is available in Chrome using my free (and always will be) chrome extension "Jira On Fire" - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-on-fire-by-kolossi/lfdjnnoomhdlkdobmigpmhnlhaciahfi.

Various other "enhancements" too, all of which can be individually turned on/off in extension options.

Currently we're using Enhancer Plugin's Parent field to display parent's summary in issue navigator. But I believe this would be a simple and good feature if it is bundled with Jira and there won't be any need for a third part app.