Why issue type "bug" is not shown in my quick link or board filter?

[Deleted user]

JQL:

project = FOOBAR AND issuetype in (Bug, Story) AND status = Open AND NOT "Epic Link" = FB123

I tried for test case to change the operator of Epic Link AND NOT to AND and got Story+Bug. So why I don't see any bug if I want to exclude an epic?

Regards,

K.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

My guess is that the issue type of "bug" is a sub-task type.

These do not inherit the "epic link" from their parent (which I believe to be a howling design failure), even though they're part of an issue which does have it.  Which means the clause "and not epic link =" will drop them out - as they have no epic link, it won't report on them at all.

You can test this by checking what bugs are returned by 

project = FOOBAR AND issuetype in (Bug, Story) AND status = Open

 and compare it with

project = FOOBAR AND issuetype in (Bug, Story) AND status = Open and (not "Epic Link" = FB123 or "Epic Link" is empty)

[Deleted user]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

thanks for your fast reply.

You guessed right. _Bug_ is not a issue type like _Story_. :-/

project = FOOBAR AND issuetype in (Bug, Story) AND status = Open and (not "Epic Link" = FB123 or "Epic Link" is empty)

The code block helped me out.

Thanks you and I wish you a calm new year 2019.

Regards,

K.