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Create a Filter that excludes a single epic and its issues

Dave Vedder_3u9lbn

I have a project APT

I have an number of Epics in that project (APT-1, APT-3, APT-16)

I have a number of issues of several types (stories, bugs, tasks) in those epics.

I wish to have a filter that shows me everything in that project except for Epic APT-16 and the issues inside it.

project = APT

Shows all issues, epics, etc. as one would expect.

 project = APT AND parentEpic != APT-16

Will hide the actual Epic, but still show all the stories in it.

project = APT AND parent != APT-16

Will only show stories that are not in APT-16, but fails to show any other issue type.

project = APT AND "Epic Link" != APT-16

Returns nothing.

So how does one show everything that isn't a specific epic or the issues in it?

Accepted answers

Jack Brickey

Adding the following JQL snippet to your current filter

AND (issue != apt-16 or “epic link” != apt-16)

All comments

Jack Brickey

Adding the following JQL snippet to your current filter

AND (issue != apt-16 or “epic link” != apt-16)

Fabian Lim

Hi @Dave Vedder

Use the "IN" and "NOT IN" operators.

project = APT and ("Epic Link" not in (APT-16) or key not in (APT-16))

Regards

Bill Sheboy

Yes, and...to also check for issues with no parent epic:

project = APT AND key != APT-16 AND ("Epic Link" != APT-16 OR "Epic Link" IS EMPTY)

Jack Brickey

Indeed! I always forget the empty part until I see the results 🙄

Bill Sheboy

And...those fancy quotation marks when copy/pasting solutions into Jira JQL ;^)

Dave Vedder_3u9lbn

Same as above, I can still see the child stories of APT-16 when using that. Iit does hide the actual APT-16 epic, just none of the issues in it.

Fabian Lim

Hi @Dave Vedder

If that's the case, you probably have them linked in a different way. Can you show us a picture of how the epic and childs are linked?

Dave Vedder_3u9lbn

Sure thing. Issues were created by clicking the + Create Issue item on the board or by clicking the Add Child Issue button when viewing the Epic directly. Viewing any issue created this way shows them nested under APT-16. Perhaps I am mistaken but I assumed this meant they were linked to the Epic.

Thanks for efforts in helping me out, by the way; much appreciated!

Issue showing child relationship (this issue is still visible using your suggested filter):

Issues made by either clicking the "Create Issue" in APT-16s swim lane...

...or by clicking the "Add a child issue" button here.

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