Need help creating report

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Hello,

I am looking to create a report but i am having issues ensuring I capture for all the stories as they have various Epic links associated to them. I do not know each Epic type that there is out there but I would like to please be able to group all the stories under my Project.

Any help would be really appreciated!

Thank you,

Thomas Bowskill · Answer

Hi @Karen G Quinche

If you have common attributes on your tickets, then you can include these in your query. Depending on how straightforward these commonalities are, you might be able to do in the basic JIRA search, otherwise the Advanced JIRA search is powerful (and I generally say it's good to learn; a lot like SQL).

If there are not common attributes, then I would advocate you work with your teams to establish these (otherwise your filter is going to drive you mad having to constantly update it to include newly-created issues). It's the classic example where the report output can only be as good as the data input.

Your options, as @[deleted]has pointed out, are typically (and apols if I start to explain things you know already):

* Projects -- if you have your teams on the same project, it generally is easier to get them using common standards (I generally find the smaller the organisation, the easier it is to have consistency). You probably can filter out some noise with projects
* Epics -- sitting above the Stores/Tasks, these group the actions together as part of a larger deliverable (Atlassian has a good explainer if interested). In the ideal world, this is what you would use to report on

Interim workaround:

* Labels -- (assuming you can update the tickets / coerce others to) you could use the label field to create a label or the JIRAs you are interested in and search for that -- then all the tickets with that label will be in your report. Of course you need to ensure that the label you use is not too generic (otherwise if others use labels, then it gets confusing). <-- personally I don't advocate approaches like this (I love Epics, Components, and use Portfolio for JIRA), but if you don't have the time / admin rights to effectuate such a change, then this is a simple way to achieve your goal.

Hope it helps

unknown · Answer

Hi @Karen G Quinche

Are the Stories assigned to an Epic?

Are all the Stories in the same Jira Project?

Are there any Stories without an Epic linked to it?

Thanks