Novice question: how to roll up time tracking in Epic from children's children

[Andrew Bowie]

In our Jira cloud implementation, we use the following hierarchy of work:

Epic -> Task -> Sub-task 

The time tracking in these tasks is calculated as follows:

Sub-task = (Sum of time logged within Sub-task)

Task = (Sum of time logged within Task) + (Sum of time logged within Sub-task)

Epic = (Sum of time logged within Epic) + (Sum of time logged within Task) excluding (sum of time logged within Sub-Task)

How do we include the time from a child's children to the Epic?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Andrew Bowie 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Atlassian does not do that natively but you could create customizations to do that. One such method would be Automation Rules 

There are examples of such rules in the Community. You can find them doing an internet search for "Jira Cloud automation roll up time tracking to epic"

You may also want to review this Automation Concepts article from @Bill Sheboy 

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Automation-articles/Automation-concepts-Sum-or-Synch-Fields-with-Parent-and-Child/ba-p/3162890

[Trudy Claspill]

Additionally, if your organization is new to Jira you may want to take advantage of the free, on-demand training available from the Learning link at the top of the community pages. You can find training for a variety of skill levels, for general usage, administration, and diving into specific topics like Automations.

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @Andrew Bowie 

If you are open to try out a mktplace solution to sum up the time tracking data, you can have a look at our app,

Issue Hierarchy

The app allows you to view your Issue Hierarchy  in a tree view. In the hierarchy view you can view the % progress of your child issues as well. The app sums up the time spent / story points at each parent level. You can also group and filter the data as per the use case.. Do give it a try.

Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member