card color based on status of linked issue

[Jochen Frieß]

Hey,

i have the following jql to color cards, that are block by another subtask

issueLinkType = "is blocked by"

i'd like to remove the coloring when all blocking sub-tasks have status = done. 

how to get the status of linked issues?

greetings 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jochen Frieß 

Welcome to the community.

There is not a native way to do that in Jira.

Are you willing to purchase a third party app to get that functionality?

[Jochen Frieß]

to be honest, no. it amazes me, that it's not possible to get the status of a linked issue. thanks anyway. 

[Harold Dick]

I'm trying to do this exact same thing in my project and after hours of searching have come to the same conclusion.  It's not possible in native application.  My corporation will not allow plug ins, so script runner and others like it are out.  I was hoping there was some JQL workaround to make it happen, but there just isn't a way to create a filter to check the status of a linked issue and return a value for the issue I'm trying to customize with a card color.

In summary, here's what I'm trying to do..

• Story A is a blocker to Story B.  I set Story A  card color to YELLOW based on query of { issueLinkType = blocks" }
• Story B is blocked by Story A.  I set Story B card color to RED based on a query of { issueLinkType = "is blocked by" }
• When Story A resolution is set to 'DONE' its card color changes to GREEN based on query of {issueLinkType = blocks and resolution = Done }.  NOTE:  This query is FIRST in the card color query as I would like to check for done first before checking next query.  This works as intended.

DESIRED OUTCOME:  I'd need one more card color query to change STORY B card color from RED to BLUE based on STORY A's status change from IN PROGRESS to DONE.  This would signal the assignee (and team) that this story's blocker (Story A) is resolved and work can begin on Story B (color is now BLUE).  <-- This is what we can't make happen in Native Jira.

[Justin Whitehead]

Completely insane that the only option for us to get this simple thing working is to spend thousands of dollars on a third party application that atlassian then gets a cut of.  Pretty frustrating.

[Harold Dick]

It appears to be very simple coding IMO.  Just not a priority for them I'm assuming.

[Meghan Burns]

If anyone else is still looking for an answer here, I was able to get a workaround to this without an extra product--I have an automation set up for adding a label to linked issues when the blocking issue is resolved (ie when an issue with links that are `issueLinkType = "blocks"` is resolved, the automation adds an "unblocked" label to those linked issues).

Then I have the cards color coded to only show the color when the `issueLinkType = "is blocked by"` AND the issue doesn't have the "unblocked" label, which works how I want it to.

[chrsme]

Hi @Trudy Claspill 

Do you know if theres any plan for this feature?

[Trudy Claspill]

No, I don't.

But I'm just another user of the product, not a member of the Atlassian Team. 

Jira Administrators for Jira instances that are under paid subscriptions could contact Atlassian Support directly to find out if there is a product suggestion about this.

https://support.atlassian.com/support/#/