JQL For All Descendants of an Epic

Prasad Andrews

Hello, I'm using Jira within my project (RNA).

I am looking for a JQL Query that I can use to return all descendant issues of an epic.

      In this project, we only have 1 issue type other than Epic, called "Task".

      We also use Sub-Tasks within Tasks.

Example Structure:

Epic = RNA-1\

 Task = RNA-4

   Sub-Task = RNA-850

I would like a query that would return RNA-4 AND RNA-850 when I point the query to the epic (RNA-1).

Solutions I've tried that do not work for me include:

• issuekey in childIssuesOf("RNA-1")

The solution I know will work, but is not dynamic and requires constant updating:

Epic Link = RNA-1 OR parent = "RNA-4"

issueFunction in issuesInEpics("Project = RNA") AND "Epic Link" = RNA-1 OR parent = "RNA-4"

Unfortunately, this solution requires me to update my query and add the additional "Tasks" or parents to my query each time I add a new task.

Could you please help me find a more dynamic way to query these issues?

Thank you.

PD Sheehan

I think you can achieve that with a 2-part JQL.

Unfortunately, you will need to specify your epic twice:

issueFunction in issuesInEpics('key=RNA-1') or issueFunction in subtasksOf("issueFunction  in issuesInEpics('key=RNA-1')")

The first part will get you the list of tasks. The second part will get you the SubTasks for all the issues in the first part.

Or you can try 

issueFunction in linkedIssuesOfAllRecursive('key=RNA-1')

 But that will also include the EPIC in the result and any other linked issues