Views by assignee in a structure

[Jean-Vincent VALLEE]

Hello all, 

I created a structure and I am trying to create a view of this structure where I group my issues by assignee.
I have the following hierarchy in my structure :
Epics > Stories > Sub-tasks.

When I try to get my view by assignee, it works but only for Epics. I get:
Assignee 1
> Epic 1
> Epic 2
Assignee 2
> Epic 3
However, if stories and sub-tasks of Epic 1 are assigned to another person, they will still appear in Assignee 1 as the epic is assigned to Assignee 1. 

How can I get the same view for stories or sub-tasks only ?
Example :
Assignee 1
> Sub-task 1
> Sub-task 2
Assignee 2
> Sub-task 3

Thank you :) 

[David Niro · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jean-Vincent VALLEE ,

Welcome to the Community!

Is the goal to have a hierarchy of Assignee > Epic > Story > Sub-Task, where all issues under the Assignee group are assigned to that user?

Or is it to have Epic>Assignee>Story>Sub-Task where Story and Sub-Tasks are all assigned to the user represented by the Group?

Or Epic>Story>Assignee>Sub-Task?  This one is the most straight forward.  You would just change the "Group on Level" to 3.

The other two would be more difficult and probably would not return the desired results.  In either of these cases, I would advise creating a "Flat" structure, where you insert all of your issues and then Group by Assignee only.  You will lose the Epic > Story > Sub-Task hierarchy, but will have a clear depiction of the work each assignee is responsible for.

To, hopefully, help illustrate why:

As an example, if you have:

Epic (assignee 1) > Story (assignee 2) > Sub-Task (assignee 3)

and then group by the assignee at the top level with expectation all issues under the group should match, you end up with:

Assignee 1 > Epic (assignee 1) > Story (assignee 2) > Sub-Task (assignee 3)

The story and the sub-task don't match the Group, they also will not match any other Epic, so will be hidden from the structure. 

Please let me know if this helps, or if I have misunderstood the goal!

Best,
David

[Jean-Vincent VALLEE]

Very helpful ! Thank you :)