Report or search for Issue Links (relates to or otherwise) and their respective fields like Due Date

Question

We have a couple of use cases where we want to pull the Due Date or Assignee (or other fields) on issues linked to an Epic. Our Epics have links (relates to) that span multiple projects and we are looking for a way to track them and report on them.

It doesn't seem that we can change the Issue Links section of an Epic, but even if we could, we'd still want to report on them rather than having to open the Epic or Epics.

I hope that makes sense.

Basically, I'm looking for a report (or at least a filter) that allows us to grab the Relates To links in a given Epic and surface the linked Issues' fields.

Thank you in advance!

Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] · Accepted Answer

Hi Heather,

Sadly you cannot achieve the desired search using standard features on Jira, since there is no way to pull issues depending on their linked issues field OOTB, you must go for a third-party app instead. Using i.e. JQL Booster Pack you can type the following:

Search for linked issues of an given epic:

issue IN linkedIssuesOf(' key = EPIC-1835 ', 'relates to' )

Search for linked issues on a particular project of an given epic:

project = MyExample AND issue IN linkedIssuesOf(' key = EPIC-1835 ', 'relates to' )

Search for linked issues of Done epics under EMEA project:

issue IN linkedIssuesOf(' project = EMEMA AND status = Done ', 'relates to' )

Note that this is just an example, you must tune above query to fit your needs, you can use also the epicsOf() function in case you are using the standard Epic Link field instead of issue linking feature.

Using this app you can also query other issues relations, check:

* epicsOf()
* hasSubtasks()
* issuesInEpics()
* linkedIssuesOf()
* parentsOf()
* portfolioChildOf()
* portfolioParentOf()
* subtasksOf()

References:

* Official documentation

Hope this helps you to create awesome queries <3

Kind regards