How to extend a structure with ascendance of current items?

[LaBulle22]

Hello,

I have a structure that contains some selected leaves of my hierarchy tree (I used Automation/Insert JQL Query) and now I’d like to add their ascendants up to the root items in such a way that my structure appears with the root items above the items I added first and not beneath as it is the case right now ☹ (I used Automation/Extend Linked Issues).

Thanks for your help.

[David Niro · Accepted solution]

Hello @LaBulle22 ,

If I understand correctly, you have added the issues you want at the lowest level of your structure's hierarchy and would now like to add the levels of the hierarchy above them.

If I have this right, rather than using an Extend Generator, you can use a Group Generator.  You can then choose the "issue links" option, choose the issue link and direction that would identify the parent and repeat until you have reached the root.

Please let me know if this helps!

Best,
David

[LaBulle22]

Hi David,

Your understanding is perfect and your solution sounds very good. All that appears a bit tricky to me but after having added 3 groups (my tree has 4 levels at all), the structure displays my tree the right way, with all needed items and nothing more.

Thanks a lot :-).

[David Niro]

very welcome, @LaBulle22 !  Glad to hear it is working for you

[LaBulle22]

Hi Nicolas,

You're right, let's take a very basic example. Let's suppose all my items are (E stands for Epic, S for Story and T for Task):

E1---S1---T1
|    +----T2
+----S2---T3

E1---S3---T4

Starting from an empty structure, I insert (thanks to JQL) only Task T2. Now I'd like to add T2 ascendance with Automation, that is only E1 and S1 to finally get:

E1---S1---T2 

with E1 on the top. 

[LaBulle22]

Hi Nicolas,

My Jira items are actually custom items and I don't have any subtasks in reality. Also there is a simple parent/child link between all my items.
What I wanted to point ou is that when I "extend" my structure reduced to "T2" in the example (Automation displays then "Add issues linked by Parent: parent is child of children"), I get the following:

T2---S1---E1  whereas I'd like to get E1---S1--T2. In other words hierarchy is upside down in my structure, Epic level it at the bottom instead to be at the top.