How to find all descendants of a ticket with Jira Premium?

Genevieve Bolduc_m7i6kt

We are using Jira Premium to create a level (Initiative) above Epics.  This allows us to have an enterprise backlog jira project containing all initiatives (projects), broken into Epics.  As well we have jira projects for teams to have their own backlog  with stories and tasks pointing to the epic they are contributing to.  This way all teams can prioritise and plan all their work in their team backlog and using the portfolioChildIssuesOf() function we can build a filter for board and advanced roadmap to retrieve all descendant tickets of an initiative ticket.

Unfortunately this function takes only a single issue key as its parameter.  We would like to be able to pass an argument to this function (or similar) to be able to retrieve all descendants of all initiatives of a particular type.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Trudy P Claspill

I think what you're asking for is part of this open change request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-19543

I have not found any method yet for getting the full hierarchy of issues below a list of issues.

With Adaptavist Scriptrunner there are some functions to get child issues where you can supply a filter for the source issues, such as

issuefunction in portfolioChildrenOf(<a filter for the parent issues>)

...but this gives you only the direct children of the parents. It does not walk down all the layers of the hierarchy.