JQL Filter issue by requesting status of linked epic

Kaan Coskun_kplrtr

I want to get all issues which hasn't their delivered by Epic in the status New.

I built this JQL:

project = SFCR AND component = DMS AND status = Open AND "Epic Link" not in (status != New)

but getting this error:

Error in the JQL Query: Expecting ',' or ')' but got '!='. (line 1, character 85)

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira

Hi @Kaan Coskun

just to expand on @Craig Nodwell's great answer:

Unfortunately, this is trickier than one might think; as a hierarchical query, it would really require some kind of join or subquery, which isn't available in plain Jira/JQL.

A few directions forward:

• If it's a one-off thing, you could first query the relevant epics, and then use the keys of these epics in a second query, in an "parent in (KEY-1, KEY-2, ...)" clause.

If you want to run your search dynamically, without manually stitching two queries together, you'll need extra tooling:

• You might be able to use Jira Automation to "propagate" epic information down to the epic's children, and then use the respective field(s) on the children to include them into your filter. Obviously, this will add a fair bit of complexity to your system.
• There's different apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that can help with that. First, there's a number of apps that extend JQL by additional functions, including hierarchy-related functions. Scriptrunner has been mentioned before, but there are a couple of options.
• 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 of searching 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