Jira Filter to display Stories in Board cause they are related to an Epic with a specific fixVersion

Karin Biedermann_ur0be3

Hi guys

I have a question regarding JQL statements. 

I have a Kanban Board which should display all Stories that are related to Epics with a specific fixVersion. 

Example: 

• Epic a - fixVersion 2404
  • Story aa - no fixVersion
  • Story ab - no fixVersion
• Epic b - fixVersion 2222
  • Story b - no fixVerison
• Epic c - fixVersion 2404
  • Story ca - no fixVersion

In this situation, my filter behind the board should display the stories related to epics with fixVersion 2404. This would mean, I should be able to see Story aa, Story ab and Story ca. 

 

How can I build a JQL statement, that filters for a specific project and AgileObjects and fixVersion and includes all childissues EVEN if they do not have neither the AgileObjects nor the fixVersion.

I hope I was able to explain that understandable.

Thank you for your support

 

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira

Hi @Karin Biedermann, 

welcome to the community!

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 ""Epic link" 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. 
• 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