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Epics without Initiatives JQL

Andres Dominguez

Hi!

I'm trying to find a way to query epics that are standalone, meaning, that they are not linked to the many initiatives in my project. Right now, I use the "supports initiative" link on epics to tie them back to initiatives; so trying to come up with a query to see if any of my epics is missing that link. How do I go about doing this?

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Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]

Hi Andres,

Have you try the following using Advanced Searching?

type = Epic AND issueLinkType != "supports initiative" OR issueLinkType IS EMPTY

Regards

Andres Dominguez

Hi Jack,

I got the below error when trying to query the above. Wondering if it's a Jira version (Jira v7.13.9) issue or my permissions.

"Field 'issueLinkType' does not exist or you do not have permission to view it"

Thoughts?

Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]

Sadly, issueLinkType was introduced on Jira 8.x

Alternatively, you can use a third-party app, i.e. JQL Booster Pack and type the following:

type = Epic AND issue NOT IN linkedIssuesOf("type = Initiative", "is supported by")

Note that you must tune the above query mostly to edit the "is supported by" link and use here the other way of your "supports initiative" link that is the description displayed on the Initiative side.