Jira Cloud Plan does not show tasks within epics

[Colin McKenzie]

When I have a generic board filter like:

project = MY_PROJECT ORDER BY SOME_FIELD ASC

On my plan I use the board as the source and I see epics listed with tasks within.

When I update the board filter to restrict by something for example:

project = MY_PROJECT AND parent IN (EPIC_1, EPIC_2) ORDER BY SOME_FIELD ASC

Then the epics don't show and all tasks are listed together under the accordion

`Story - XX issues`

I don't have any filters or grouping set other than Filters > Hierarchy > Epic to Story.

Without changing any grouping or settings on the plan I either see all the epics in the project or none - depending on the source filter.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Colin McKenzie 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

When you change the filter to:

project = MY_PROJECT AND parent IN (EPIC_1, EPIC_2) ORDER BY SOME_FIELD ASC

...you are telling Jira that you want issues from MY_PROJECT, but only the issues that are children of EPIC_1 and EPIC_2. That is explicitly excluding all Epics and issues under any other Epic.

If you want to include all Epics then you would change the filter thus:

project = MY_PROJECT AND parent IN (EPIC_1, EPIC_2) or issuetype="Epic" ORDER BY SOME_FIELD ASC

If you want to include just the Epics for which you are getting the child issues you would change the filter thus:

project = MY_PROJECT AND parent IN (EPIC_1, EPIC_2) or key in (EPIC_1, EPIC_2) ORDER BY SOME_FIELD ASC

[Colin McKenzie]

Thanks @Trudy Claspill !