How to extract only the parent issues inside 1 epic?

[Alan_Lim]

Hi all,

I'm trying to extract only the user story from a epic which excluding their clone?  Currently user story are created and sometimes clone due to spill over to the next sprint.  I just want to extract those very first user story (or parent) which excluding their clone user story.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Alan_Lim

It depends what data points your issues have - if it has "CLONE" in the summary or retains the clone link type then it should be possible to do this.

If the link type "clones" remains on the issue you could use:

"Epic Link" = ABC-1 and (issueLinkType != clones or issueLinkType is EMPTY)

^ This locates children of an Epic who don't have the link type of "clones" or have no links at all.

If "CLONE" remains in the title - you could try:

"Epic Link" = ABC-1 and summary !~ "CLONE"

^ Just remember this matches any summary with the word "Clone" in it - not just the cloned issues. 

If there's nothing to identify a clone it can be difficult to search for it. If you don't want to have CLONE in the title or use the link type, I would suggest having it identified somewhere for simple searching.

Ste