How do I create an issue list to show issues impacted by a blocked issue.

[Chad Collinson]

I want to be able to generate a list of issues that are blocked as a result of another users blocks.

This is so at a glance myself or the user themselves can see what impact their blocks are having on the rest of the team.

Nautrally,  issueLinkType = blocks will bring back all the blocks but I can't think of any way to then filter this to show only issues blocked as a result of the active user (or a specific user).

You cant seem to reference a user with issueIsBlockedBy ?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

Cheers,

[Earl McCutcheon · Accepted solution]

Hello @Chad Collinson ,

Thanks for reaching out, and as you noted the "issueLinkType = blocks" or "issueLinkType = is blocked by" will bring back all the blocked and blocked by issues based on either side of the bidirectional result set for the inward and outward link-type noted. Basically, this will return to us any issue that has a link of that type, however, it does not tell us anything more about the linked issue itself, only the issue details about the originating issue, so there would not be a method to do a subquery against the result set to see the issues impacted by the first set of results.

Currently, you would only be able to see issues assigned to a user that has a specific link type the status of the linked issue would not be conveyed.

As a workaround, the Add-on Scriptrunner has an option to do nested JQL filters Via an "issueFunction in" JQL, and the following thread has a discussion of how to use this with the issue link types to visualize blocking issues:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Filter-Issues-that-are-Open-Blocking-OR-Blocked-by-Open-Issues/qaq-p/693758

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Earl