Search for epics with issues in another specific project

Question

All my epics are stored in a project A but all their stories are in other projects.

I want to get all epics that have issues in a specific project B :

issueFunction in issuesInEpics("project = B")

But this does not get any ticket. When I just search "project = B", I get a full list of tickets.

All the tickets I want to get are linked to epics in project A.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

@Marc Isikoff

To get full community visibility on your question it is better to start a brand new Question than to post on an old (1+ year old) Question. If this post is relevant, include a link to it in your new Question.

When you add to an old question the only people who see your post are people who are watching the old question, have responded to the old question, and the original author.

Marc Isikoff_o8qjap · Answer

Slightly different ask but still need epics from project B for a story in Project A.

1. We are trying to automate the Epic link in A as the manual step would be to go to the story in A, navigate to Epic Link, and start typing the account # there until you get a list of Epics from various projects that match (Epic names/summaries begin with account numbers) and pick the one from a specific project (or latest key from specific project if > 1). If there is none, create an Epic in B and then go back and start over.

We want to automate a way to do this but since we do not start with a linked Epic these functions do not work.

mauricio.groth · Answer

Hi @Florent06

As you're on Jira Server, 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  epics that have issues from other projects

issue in epicOf("project = B”)

Check out the documentation for more examples.

If you have any other questions, please contact our support. We’ll be happy to help you!
Best regards,
Maurício