Filtering an existing JIRA issue's child issue

[Beyer Gertrud]

Dear Community,

Please help us to make a filter, which showes in a jira project an existant JIRA issue's child issues.

Thank You!

Gertrud

[Cristiano Alves -Appfire- · Accepted solution]

Hello @Beyer Gertrud 

I'm Cristiano, with the Appfire team here.

In native Jira you are not able to query directly for children, but with the app our team works, JQL Search Extensions for Jira, you should be able to. Besides all the other uses for the as for querying for even more detailed info, saving as a filter and so on.

In your case, the following query for example:

issue in parentsOfIssuesInQueryRecursive("project='ACME' and type=Epic")

would query for all the children of epics and children of children in the project.

Another example would be:

issue in childrenOfIssuesInQuery("assignee=currentUser() and type=Initiative") 

this would query for all children of Initiative type assigned to the current user.

If you need any help with this query or any doubt about the app, feel free to contact our support team.

[Beyer Gertrud]

Thanks so much!

[Bert Dombrecht · Accepted solution]

Hi Gertrud,

Small addition to the answers:

If you are looking at an epic - child relation or a parent - subtask relation, you can indeed query: parent = ABC-123

If you have linked work items on the same level with a parent-child link, you can use: 
issueLink = ABC-123 and issueLinkType = "is child of"

[Valerie Knapp · Accepted solution]

Hi @Beyer Gertrud , thanks for your post.

You can use the Parent to query the children, like this

parent in (MC-42)

^ where you write the key of the parent like this and then this should produce a list of the children.

I hope it helps you.

Cheers

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Beyer Gertrud 

You can only search for this, simple JQL is: parent = <issue-key>

[Beyer Gertrud]

Thanks so much for your help!

[Beyer Gertrud · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much for the answers!