Jira Data Center
End of life

Links your team can pick, read and follow

VIP.LEAN Advanced Links turns Jira links into something people work with rather than around: a field that offers the right issues, a panel that shows the related ones as a table, and buttons that create the next issue already linked.

On the Atlassian Marketplace since 2021

FEAT-22

Implemented by

STORY-84Search filter on the order list
STORY-91Bulk export for finance

Related issues panel

keystatusassignee
STORY-84In progressa.keller
STORY-91To dom.dorn

Pick an issue in the field and the link appears in the panel below, with the columns you configured.

Three features, one idea

Jira can link two issues. What it cannot do is offer the right ones, show them usefully, or create them for you. That is the gap this app fills.

Issue Picker and Linker fields

A custom field that lists issues, optionally narrowed by JQL. Single or multiple selection, on create, edit and transition screens.

Links created and kept in step

Choose the link type and direction once. Picking an issue creates the link; with sync switched on, a link changed by hand updates the field too.

Related issues panels

Linked issues shown as a table on the issue view, with up to ten columns in the order you choose. Optionally in board and filter detail views as well.

Create and link buttons

A button on the issue view that opens a create screen for a defined target project and work type, and links the result back automatically.

Fields filled or hidden on create

Copy a value from the source issue, pass its key, or set a fixed string — and hide the fields nobody should have to answer, even required ones.

Runs inside your instance

A Data Center app installed in your own Jira. Nothing is sent to our servers, and nothing leaves your network.

How a picker gets set up

One configuration panel for all three features, reachable from Manage apps or from Jira's own custom field screen.

Create the field

Single or multiple picker, created either in the app panel or through Jira's Add custom field dialog.

Narrow the options

Write the JQL that decides which issues appear. Leave it empty and every issue is offered.

Choose the link

Link type and direction, plus whether the field should follow link changes made elsewhere. Without a link type the field simply stores a selection.

Put it on a screen

Standard Jira screen configuration for company-managed projects; the simplified field list for team-managed ones.

Pick and Link Issues

Field name

Implemented by

Filter (JQL)

type = Story AND status != Done

Link type

is implemented by
Sync link changes
Multiple selection

The JQL is checked before the configuration is saved.

Why this app ends

Atlassian is retiring Data Center. Sales of new Data Center subscriptions and Marketplace apps ended for new customers in March 2026, and Data Center products reach end of life on 28 March 2029, when the licences and the app licences that go with them expire. The dates come from Atlassian, not from us.

This app ends with the platform it was built for. Until then it stays available and supported for existing customers, and it keeps working on current Jira releases.

Its three features live on as separate Cloud apps, each able to go further than it could as a third of a bundle.

Already running the app?

The documentation covers installation, picker fields, related issues panels and the create buttons. For anything it does not answer, the support portal is open as usual.

Developed and supported by VIP.LEAN Solutions GmbH in Germany. The app sends no data to our servers.