Filter: How to surface epics with a condition on child issue

Justine_wlccrl

Hi! I have the following configuration:

- Epics

- Tasks with different labels

 

I am trying to create a filter that surfaces the tasks with a specific label as well as their Parent Epic (which don't have any label)

Is there a straightforward way to do this?

Thanks for you help!

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira

Hi @Justine

unfortunately, "plain" JQL isn't too great with hierarchies, so to the best of my knowledge, you'll need extra tooling to solve your use case. A few directions forward:

• You should be able to use Jira Automation to "propagate" the information from the tasks up to their epics, and then use the respective field on the epics in your JQL.
• There's different apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that can help with that. On the one hand, there's a number of apps that extend JQL by additional functions, including hierarchy-related functions. I've used JQL Search Extensions a few times and it works great. The (potential) disadvantage is that you'll always only see your issues as a flat list, rather than in their hierarchy.
• Alternatively, you could try one of the more hierarchy-focused apps from the Marketplace. These apps typically have their own ways of figuring out parent/child relationships between issues, and provide more powerful ways to define and navigate through issue hierarchies. I myself work on such an app, in which your use case would be easy to solve; I'll provide more details below.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes