Epics
If you have GitLab EE, you can create epics. An epic is an extensive user story that still has to be broken down into a set of smaller user stories. Usually, an epic describes a defined piece of functionality or product property, but needs to be worked out in more detail before the team can commit to this feature to be realized within one sprint. It's like a theme among issues.
For big organizations that work with long-running project management programs, there is also the option to have multi-level epics so that you can link and coordinate efforts. There is a button (+) for it in the creation form of the epic.
Epics very much resemble issues in that you have the same editing functions and state. The same formatting is applicable, ...
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