Filtering all related itens (issues, etc) by an specific epic

[Fabio Belotto]

Hello guys,

I´ve seem many many questions and discussions about this question, but not a simple answer that does not demand an external plugin!

how could I simple filter my itens (task, histories, subtasks) by just the epic! Is that so hard!?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Fabio Belotto 

What are the end results you are trying to achieve?

The "View all issues" screen in Jira allows you to create a filter to get a list of issues. If you want to get all the child issues of a specific Epic you can do that with:

Parent = issue key for Epic

That will not give you the subtasks that are under the child issues of the Epic.

Unfortunately there is not a Jira-native way to nest filters so that you could, for instance, do something like

Parent = issue key of Epic or Parent in (Parent = issue key of Epic)

And there is no "subtasksOf" function that accepts a filter as input.

The bottom line is getting both child issues of an Epic and the subtasks of those child issues is not possible with native Jira search functionality.

[Fabio Belotto]

That's the question. 

I would like to simply filter all my board by a specific epic. 

With available options, I don't get to the subtasks. Jql is quite not useful by not accepting a simple recursive selection (given the options that I would need to use... )

And using external plugins is always a compatibility issue. 

[Trudy Claspill]

Good news! I was wrong!

I found a post that I actually answered from 2020, but I got the answer from somebody else.

If you use a filter like this you will get the child issues of the Epic and the subtasks of the child, when all issues are in Company Managed projects.

Parent=issue key of Epic or (issuetype in subTaskIssueTypes() and parentEpic=issue key of Epic )

The above does not work for Team Managed projects, unfortunately.

[Fabio Belotto]

Interesting option.

I currently use an team managed instance because company managed seems a little bit confusing to set up, but I may try.