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For custom hierarchies, roll ups for time tracking , story points, numeric values to parent, if you are open to try out a mktplace app, take a look at,
The app allows you to view your issues in a hierarchy list view with roll up of story points at Epic level and at each parent level.
Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member
Hi @Ramesh Krishnan ! Good question. Jira doesn't show a story count on the epic itself out of the box. You can open an epic and see its child issues, but there's no simple column that tells you how many stories sit under each one.
You can get close with a JQL filter or a board, but that takes manual setup for every epic. It also won't give you a clean parent-child overview in one place.
For this, you can try our solution, Smart Hierarchy for Jira. It shows your epics and their child issues in a single nested view. Each parent displays its children, so you can scan story counts across epics at a glance.
Here's what this can look like in practice:
You can also expand or collapse each epic to focus on the ones you need. This makes it easy to see how work is spread across your epics. There are roll-up values displayed on the status bar at the top. They show you the number of issues in the selected work item, along with their status and story points, and checklist completion progress.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi @Ramesh Krishnan ,
For a native option, the Two-Dimensional Filter Statistics gadget on a classic dashboard is the closest fit. Point it at a filter like `issuetype = Story AND parent is not EMPTY`, set the axis to Parent (Epic), and you get a table of every epic with its story count in one place. No epic keys required.
If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you can also get this as a live, interactive view with the app my team and I work on, JXL for Jira.
JXL is a full spreadsheet/table view for your issues. Build a sheet with a JQL like `issuetype = Story`, then group by Epic (or parent). Each epic becomes a collapsible group header that shows its story count automatically, so you see all epics and their counts side by side in a single sheet.
You can also add a count sum-up or expand any group to see the underlying stories, and the whole view persists so it's there next time you open it.
Disclosure: I work on the team that builds JXL.
Best,
Martin
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