How to track time in Epics?

[Benjamin Buchwald]

Hi all,

I have an Epic and there are 5 tasks below it. In these 5 tasks working time has already been logged.

But the sum of the time of the tasks is not displayed in the Epic.

Is this possible at all without another addon?

Many greetings

Benjamin

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Benjamin Buchwald 

You can use a third party app to accomplish this or create a custom solution using a custom field and Automation. 

An internet search for "jira cloud sum time for epic" will provide you with links to some of the apps in the Marketplace as well as links to other posts in this community that discuss this topic.

[Benjamin Buchwald]

Hi @Trudy Claspill,

thank you for your answer.

The option with the automation would interest me, do you have an example of how that could work?

Many greetings

Benjamin

[Trudy Claspill]

I do not have an example of doing this through automation, since I have not had to implement it before.

I see that in Automation you can set up rules to trigger on Work getting logged, changed, or deleted. And you can create a branch that will then operate against the parent epic of the issue. Then you would need to work out how to get the time logged against the issue (or the time changed or deleted) and recalculate the value of the custom field you created in the Epic.

[Benjamin Buchwald]

Thank you Trudy for your support :)

[Rhys Diab _Rogue Wombat Software_]

Hi @Benjamin Buchwald 

You can use Jira's built-in automation feature and trigger it when time is logged against an issue.

If you want something which works out of the box we put together a plugin called Agile Docs.

It maintains fields for the summed up time logged on parent Epics:

It also reports on time logged all the way up your entire issue hierarchy up to the project or filter level. You can see below it gives a handy snapshot of how time is logged at any level of your issue hierarchy, including Epics.

Hope that helps!

Rhys

[Rahul_RVS]

If you would be interested in a ready made solution, You may want to try out our plugin,

Agile Tools : Epic Tree & Time in Status 

The plugin provide sum up of time spent for complete issues in epic hierarchy

Along with this the add-on also provides Links Hierarchy, Multiple (more than 8) Time in Status reports to track your issues and Worklogs report to track time spent each day/week/month, based multiple filters/group