How can we get all the child issues of a the results of a filter query. The results are features

Question

For example issuekey in childrenof (<key>) gets child issues of one feature.

but what if I want all the child issues of a list of features that is a results of a filter query.

TIA.

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

... and just to expand on the last point, this is how this would look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira. Put simply, you'd create a sheet with all issues that are potentially relevant to you, enable the issue hierarchy (depending on your exact setup, this may be just one click), and then use JXL filtering capabilities to narrow down to the issues that you care about:

(I'm using a summary-based filter here, but it would work the same way with any other field(s).)

Once you have your list of issues, you can work on these directly in JXL (much like you'd do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets), trigger various operations in Jira, or export them for further processing.

Any questions just let me know!

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Karpagam Elangovan

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 parent, and then use the keys of these parents in a second query, in a "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" parent information down to the 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; I've used JQL Search Extensions a few times and it works well.
* 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

Yong Yang · Answer

Hi @Karpagam Elangovan

Welcome to our community.

I think you may need Script Runner app to query issues based on another JQL query result.

BTW, what's your issue type hierarchy in your instance?

Thanks,

YY Bro