How to maintain Epic>Stories>Sub-tasks view while showing only a few Epics from the project?

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

I have a Kanban board that shows work-items grouped by Epics (i.e., Swimlanes are based on Epics) and under an Epic rows I can see stories plus if there are sub-tasks under that story then those too inside the story card.

For the above view my board's filter query is basically "project = projectName" which means the board is showing all the epics but I want to see only a few epics. Is there a way to retain the above view/layout and show only the epics that I would want to see?

[Craig Nodwell]

Hi, @Vinayak Kumbhakern 
Couple of quick questions you should answer before you further filter.
What are the requirements for the "show only the epics that I would want to see?"
Are those requirements static or will they remain constant?
You could set a board sub-filter.
You could also create a Quick Filter.
Another thing although it would change the look of the Board is to turn on the Epics panel and change your swimlanes.

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

When tired using "issuekey in (PROJ-1140, PROJ-4214)" in board sub-filter or as Quick Filter then board did not show any epics at all.. board was empty.

[Craig Nodwell]

Couple of things here:
Are those two issues in an In Progress statusCategory?
If these are in a statusCategory of To Do and that status is mapped to the backlog they won't show in the board, check the status of the issues.
Have you setup a backlog?
If yes check in there.

Just a note.
There are only 3 Status Categories.
To Do
In Progress
Done
When a status is created a request for the category is popped up.

Also does the jql return the issues from a search?

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

I won't be able to confirm statusCategory as I don't have admin access on Jira instance. However, one item is in "In Progress" status and another is in "Open" status.

For Kanban board I haven't selected Backlog option.

And, "issue in (PROJ-1140, PROJ-4214)" returns those two issues.

[Craig Nodwell]

@Vinayak Kumbhakern, I should have asked this first maybe...
Can you see those two Epics in the boards swimlanes as per above with simple filter? 

Also don't worry about statusCategory your answer on the no backlog and in different statuses tells me enough.  :)

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

When I use "issuekey = PROJ-1140 OR parent = PROJ-1140", those two epics themselves are seen (screenshot attached) under the swimlanes but not the child items of those epics as seen in the original view pasted along with initial query which is what I would like retain but only for a few epics instead of all the epics in the project.

[Garrett McCreery]

Hi Vinayak, welcome to the community!

Have you used board Quick Filters? You can find them in the board settings. This will allow you to create additional "sub-filters" to filter down the board even more.

Let me know if that works for you.

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

Yes tried. Please see my answer above to @Craig Nodwell

[Garrett McCreery]

You could try this:

issue in (PROJ-1140, PROJ-4214) or parent in (PROJ-1140, PROJ-4214)

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

Same result still. Board is empty.

[Garrett McCreery]

To continue the investigation, can you try this same query in the Advanced Issue Search under the Filters menu, to see if you are getting the results correctly.

That will narrow down whether or not its a board issue.

[Vinayak Kumbhakern]

@Garrett McCreery and @Craig Nodwell thank you for your support and walking with me in this exploration. I believe I have found a solution in childIssuesOf() clause.

I am able to retrieve all the direct/indirect children under a given issue using "issuekey in childIssuesOf(<itemID>) or issuekey = <itemID>". One useful reference I found in addition to what we have been trying together is this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiraportfolioserver/searching-for-issues-using-portfolio-issue-details-940678957.html