How do I search for issues based on text within the parent Epic's summary name?

Question

My team has categorized Epics by adding prefixes to the Epic Name, such as "[Q1 Workstream A]". We'd like to filter our kanban board based on each workstream without adding additional labels and tags. Is there a way to query all Stories that are linked to Epics with "Workstream A" in the name?

mauricio.groth · Answer

Hi @Dani Adix

As you're on Jira Cloud, the correct answer is to get an app that provides JQL extensions you're looking for.

With standard JQL, you can only get a list of issues and export them to Excel for further processing. This works if you want to do a one-off analysis. If your use case is more dynamic than that, look beyond standard Jira.

Standard JQL doesn't easily allow it, but you can quickly find the results using our professional indexing service JQL Search Extensions

You can use this query to find all your children’s stories that have the word “Workstream A” in the summary of their epics

issue in childrenOfEpicsInQuery("text ~ 'Workstream A'") and issuetype = Story

Check out the documentation for more examples.
I hope this helps!
Maurício

Eduardo Oliveira · Answer

Hi @Dani Adix, how are you? Welcome to the Atlassian Community 👋🏻

If you're open to using a Marketplace app, I would like to share another solution that may be useful in your need/scenario 👉🏻 MindPro Insights - Dynamic Reports for Jira

This is a FREE cloud app built for Jira that allows you to build highly interactive reports and dashboards and dynamically filter and drill down your Jira project data.

As you can see in the image above, you can easily search and filter any epic by summary name, select multiple epics or pick just one to filter and see all the data respective to your selection instantly being displayed in interactive charts.

Additionally, using this app you can see all the issues linked (stories, bugs, tasks, etc..) in a Hierarchy view (and export the full report or list of issues if you want).

So anyway, maybe can help in your scenario. If you want to see how it works in more detail, take a look at this quick tour.

Cheers, Eduardo (MindPro team)

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Dani Adix

Welcome to the community.

Neither Jira Cloud nor Jira Server/Data Center provide a native method for creating the query you describe.

Do you have any apps added to your instance that extend the JQL capabilities? You may have to ask your Jira Administrators about that.

If you don't have any such apps, is your company willing to pay for such?