find tasks without parent issue

[Ivan Andrieiev]

I use the standard version of Jira, when building a hierarchy of tasks, we decided to use the parent-child relationship in tasks, but there is a problem with the fact that I cannot find tasks that do not belong to any parent task. Is it possible to do this with jira out of the box or do I need to install additional plugins?

[Tuncay Senturk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ivan Andrieiev 

I think you can do that with standardIssueTypes() jql function which searches for issues that are not sub-tasks

issuetype in standardIssueTypes()

[Ivan Andrieiev]

@Tuncay Senturk  Hi

we have a four-level structure for building a hierarchy of tasks. Epic-Task-Task-Subtask.
Therefore, most often I have to find tasks at the third level, this is a standard type of tasks, not a subtask. But she has a parental task, but it is not an epic.

[Tuncay Senturk]

Oh, I see! How do you link those Tasks (second and third-level issues)?

[Tuncay Senturk]

Sorry for the spam, I was just thinking about this, if there is a specific link between those two Tasks, you can use Script Runner's hasLinks as below.

AND hasLinks = "your-particular-link-type-direction"

[Ivan Andrieiev]

I only should use Script Runner's for this?

I use the connection on the screenshot

[Tuncay Senturk]

No, I don't think it's a good idea to install a plugin for just this purpose. I supposed that you already had the app and you would be able to use this function. Other than that, I'm afraid I have no idea.