Shouldn't my total time spent on epic include the subtasks of it's child issue
My epic total time spent field shows 4 weeks, which is the log that is logged in the child issue of the epic. But the Child issue also has other subtasks linked to is. So ; 1-> 0 -> -1 link levels. (AP-1665 is the epic of AP-1989)
The subtasks has total 10 weeks of log. So shouldn't my time spent on epic shows 14 weeks instead it shows 4 week?
Thanks.
5 answers
Hi @İclal Aslan 👋🏻,
I have reviewed and analyzed the situation you shared. Unfortunately, Jira’s native Time Spent field does not include worklogs from subtasks in the total. For this reason, the total time at the Epic level reflects only the worklogs added to the first-level issues under the Epic, and does not automatically roll up from deeper levels (subtasks).
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Hi @İclal Aslan,
As mentioned already, this is a known issue/limitation of Jira Cloud tracked in JRACLOUD-70150.
If you are open to using an app from Atlassian Marketplace, you can obtain the total time spent in epics by summing the Time Spent values of their child items (stories and subtasks) using the Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget offered by our Great Gadgets app.
To achieve this, the gadget should be configured like this:
The gadget must be configured with a JQL that returns the stories under the epics (sub-tasks not needed), like this one, in which DEMO-1, DEMO-2... are the epics to track:
parent IN (DEMO-1, DEMO-2, DEMO-3, DEMO-4, DEMO-5)
In addition, the stories under the epics must have the "Include subtasks" option checked:
Hope this helps.
Danut.
Hi @İclal Aslan
If you are fine to explore a mktplace add-on for this requirement, I can suggest our app
The app allows you to view your Epic hierarchy in a tree view. You can view %complete progress at each parent level. It roll ups the time tracking fields, story points or custom numeric fields at each parent level. The app can be added to a dashboard as well.
Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member
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