Epics for user

[Tomer]

Hi, I'm looking for a report that will show the epics that a user has been involved with (that is - been assigned with tickets of this epic or added a comment), in the last 3 months.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Tomer 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

There is no native report for that, and no native combination of issue filter capabilities that can give you that information as the result of a single filter.

You can create a filters to get all the issues where a given user was the assignee sometime in the past three months with this:

assignee = <the user> or assignee was <the user> after startOfDay(-90)

It is not possible with native Jira functionality to get a list of epics from a dynamically generated list of issues. In the output of the above filter you could include the Epic Link field and see the Epic for each issue, though.

There is no native functionality to select issues based on the comment author nor when that comment was created. That would require a third party app that extends filter capabilities. There are a few such apps available from the Atlassian Marketplace.

[Tomer]

Thanks @Trudy Claspill for the answer, this is really helpful.

Do you think it would be possible to bundle this into a pie/chart/report or something that is easy to read/understand?
So effectively we want to know what epics userX was working on in the last Y months/weeks/sprints. I'll be happy to set it up, but I need this as a tool for the manager to quickly understand where do people contribute and how far is their outreach.. (or is there another way I am not thinking about?)

As comments are difficult to include, it will be ok to leave that aside for now. 

[Trudy Claspill]

Are the issues in Team Managed projects or Company Managed projects?

If the issues are in Company Managed project, then the answer is yes. You can use the native Pie Chart gadget available in the Jira Dashboards to group the data by Epic Link. However, subtask types of issues do not include the Epic Link information. You need to either exclude subtask from the filter results or implement automation to copy the Epic Link information from the parent to the subtask.

If the issues are in Team Managed projects then there is not a built-in gadget that will work because Team Managed projects don't use Epic Link. Instead they use Parent, and Parent is not a field that can be selected in the gadgets for grouping issues.