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JQL nested for parent functions

Hari Shankar Gadamsetty
January 6, 2026

This is our JQL and I want the associated Stories & Subtask also to be filtered and showcased in the filters but as of now this is showing only epics, as we are in Jira cloud and we don't have script runner plugin and we don't have access to issuesinepic function
project = XXXX
AND type IN (Epic)
AND "aspired quarter of release[select list (cascading)]" IN cascadeOption(10061, 10067)

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Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
January 7, 2026

Hello @Hari Shankar Gadamsetty 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

If you have only native JQL functionality available you cannot get what you want. Natively Jira does not support nesting filters; i.e. getting children of Epics where those Epics are determined dynamically through a filter.

You can use 

Parent in (<comma separated list of Epic keys>)

...but you must explicitly list the Epic keys.

To get nested filtering capabilities within the UI in JQL requires a third party app.

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