Jira Struture formula that get a related fixVersion

[Al.Kopasz]

Looking for some guidance to help solve a grouping use case.


We are looking to solve a Release Management scenario that involves using both component and fixVersion.

Component are going to act like package versions ( PRODUCT v9.3.1, PRODUCT v9.3.2…) each story that is planned for a release will have the component/package assigned to the story that the code was delivered in, but not a fixVersion.

Key-component/version

• Story #1-PRODUCT v9.3.1

• Story #2-PRODUCT v9.3.1

• Story #3-PRODUCT v9.3.2

We want to cut a release using fixVersion that includes stories from both component versions, eg. Release 25.2.20… which contains component/version PRODUCT v9.3.1 and PRODUCT v9.3.2



Data for this structure looks like this:


Project in (APPLICATION) and ((fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() and fixVersion is not EMPTY) OR component is not EMPTY)



Was thinking to crosslink component/version to release fixversion via a ReleaseManagement issue type. That will have both fixVersion=”Release 25.2.20”and components (“PRODUCT v9.3.1”,”PRODUCT v9.3.2”)


Looking for a formula that finds the fixversion of the Release Mangement that shares the component version of the issue that I am on. This way I can group based on this formula version. 


Kind of like this:

Release 25.2.20

• Release Story #1-“PRODUCT v 9.3.1”,”PRODUCT v 9.3.2”, Release 25.2.20

• Story #1-PRODUCT v 9.3.1, formula ->Release 25.2.20

• Story #2-PRODUCT v 9.3.1,formula ->Release 25.2.20

• Story #3-PRODUCT v 9.3.2,formula ->Release 25.2.20

Any suggestions would be helpful.

[Stepan Kholodov _Tempo_]

Hello @Al.Kopasz 

You can achieve this if Stories in every release group are placed as sub-issues of the Release Story. In this case, you can just reference the parent Release Story's version for each Story:

if issuetype = "story": parent{fixversion}

If Stories are not connected via the hierarchy/link in Jira to Release Story, then it won't be possible to extract the Release Story's version - the formula can only access values from other issues if these issues are somehow related to the current issue. 

I hope this helps. 

Best regards,
Stepan
Tempo (the Structure app vendor)