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Multi-project & Multi-site Traceability

Multi-project & Multi-site Traceability

Achieve complete visibility across distributed work environments.

Modern organizations often operate in a distributed setup — different teams managing their own Jira projects, and in many cases, work items being linked across separate Jira sites. This makes unified traceability challenging, especially when compliance, risk, and delivery oversight are at stake.

Links Explorer (LXP) solves this by enabling end-to-end traceability across both multiple projects and multiple Jira sites — without forcing you to restructure your work.

Multi-project Traceability

Track relationships across all your Jira projects, whether they’re separated by department, function, or location.

  • Map a customer issue from Support → Bug in Engineering → Fix Verification in QA

  • Connect regulatory requirements in one project to implementation tasks in another

  • Consolidate insights across the delivery chain, even if teams use different workflows or issue types

Linked work item from another project in Unified Tree View
Linked work item from another project in Issue Type View
Linked work item from another project in Link Type View

Multi-site Traceability

Have multiple Jira instances across business units or regions? LXP can pull in and visualize links from remote Jira sites, provided they’re connected via application links.

  • Trace how work in one Jira site impacts or depends on items in another

  • View cross-instance links directly within the Unified Tree View and Reports

  • Improve governance by avoiding blind spots across instances

Linked work item from another Instance in Unified Tree View
Linked work item from another Instance in Link Type View
Linked work item from another Instance in Tree View

How to Enable Remote Links in LXP

  1. Ensure your Jira instances are linked via Application Links in your Jira administration settings.

In Traceability Report:

  1. Go to the gear icon (⚙️) on the top-right of the Traceability Report screen.

  2. Enable “Fetch Remote Links” from the dropdown menu.

    • This will allow LXP to pull and show remote issue links in the report.

Multi-instance linking is not supported in the Issue Type View.

In Tree Views (Tree View & Tree View under Traceability Report):

  1. Similarly, open the gear icon in Tree View of Traceability Report.

  2. Enable “Fetch Remote Links”.

Additional Steps for Tree Views:

  • To ensure remote issues are fetched correctly, make sure:

    • Priority filter is set to Not Set

    • Issue Type filter is set to Not Set

Why It Matters

  • Avoid duplicated effort across projects

  • Surface hidden dependencies across sites

  • Ensure compliance and traceability are not limited by project or site boundaries

  • Make audit preparation smoother with consolidated views

Whether your work is spread across 10 projects or 3 different Jira sites, Links Explorer brings it all together into one seamless, actionable traceability layer.