JQL query to filter issues in Project A which are linked and "Relates To" issues in Project B

[Vineet_Kotian]

I am creating a custom filter in Project A to filter issues in the Backlog and the Board. I want to be able to filter issues in Project A which are linked to Project B issues (Project B contains potential issues on released versions). This helps to trace the development items in Project A linked to customer issues in Project B.

I tried below queries but it didnt execute:
JQL 1 - project = "Project A" AND issue IN linkedIssuesOf('project = "Project B"')
JQL 2 - project = "Project A" AND issueLink in linkedIssues("Project B")

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Accepted solution]

Hi @Vineet_Kotian

to the best of my knowledge, this is trickier than one would think; your query would really require some kind of join or subquery, which isn't available in plain Jira/JQL.

A few ways forward:

• If it's a one-off thing, you could first query your relevant issues from project B, and then use the issue keys of these issues in a query like project = "A" AND issueLink in (issue-key-1, issue-key-2, ...)

If you want to run your search dynamically, without manually "stitching" two queries together, you'll need extra tooling:

• You may be able to use Jira Automation to store the fact that there is a relevant issue link into a custom field, and then use the custom field to query your issues. Obviously, this will add a bit of complexity to your system.
• There's different apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that can help with that. First, there's a number of apps that extend JQL by additional functions, including issue-link-related functions. linkedIssuesOf, as you're using above, comes from ScriptRunner - I believe the syntax would be issueFunction in linkedIssuesOf(...), though.
• Alternatively, you could try one of the more hierarchy-focused apps from the Marketplace. These apps typically have their own ways of figuring out relationships between issues, and provide more powerful ways of searching through issue structures. I myself work on such an app, in which your use case would be easy to solve - I'll provide more details below.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Just to expand on the last point, this is how this would look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira. Put simply, you'd create a sheet with all issues that are potentially relevant to you, model an issue structure based on "relates to" issue links (that's just a couple of clicks), and then use JXL filtering capabilities to narrow down to the issues that you care about:

Once you have your list of issues, you can work on these directly in JXL (much like you'd do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets), trigger various operations in Jira, or export them for further processing.

Any questions just let me know!

[Charlotte Santos -Appfire- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Vineet_Kotian

I’m Charlotte, a support engineer at Appfire and I’m here to help you.

Unfortunately, using vanilla JQL, you’ll not be able to do it dynamically.

In the app where my team works, JQL Search Extensions for Jira, you can use this query to find issues from project A that are linked to issues in project B:

 issue in linkedIssuesOfQuery("project='Project B'") AND project="Project A" 

Please contact our support if you have any other questions about this query.

We’ll be happy to help you!