Jira Structure - How to show epics without issues

[Fabiano]

Hi all,

In my structure I want to see in hierarchical order Epics - Story - Subtask.

The problem: some Stories are not assigned to Epics and some Epics have no Stories yet. At the moment I work like this:

This allows me to see Stories that don't have an Epic but doesn't allow me to see Epics that don't have Stories.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to include both cases and still maintain the hierarchical order?

[David Niro · Accepted solution]

Hi @Fabiano ,

Welcome to the Community!

For this, I believe it will be useful to Extend to Stories under Epics rather than Grouping by Epic.

You can adjust your insert generator to something like this:

project = JIRAEDU and (issuetype in (Story)AND "Parent Link" is EMPTY )
OR issuetype = Epic

This will bring in all your Epics from the project as well as any stories that are not assigned to an Epic

Then add your Extend Generator for issues belonging to Epics to bring in the stories that are assigned to an Epic.

Please let me know if it helps!

Best,
David

[Fabiano]

Hi @David Niro

Your solution works well even if I found the "No Epic" folder that was created with Grouping by Epic particularly convenient. In that way the hierarchy was also maintained visually (all stories were on the same level, both with and without Epic).

I think there is currently no way to have both...

Thank you very much!

Fabiano

[David Niro]

Hi @Fabiano ,

You are very welcome!

You could try Folders, and split the query from before into two, one Insert Generator for each folder (it will require two I believe).

The only potential downside would be that your Epics would also be under a folder, but maybe this would be of a benefit...

Best,
David