Querying secondary links between issues

Question

I'm trying to build a list of issues (tasks) that are children to an issue (epic) that implements an issue (project).

I've attempted to query for this without success. I found some examples of traversing the relationships but I could only locate solutions that require ScriptRunner - I do not have access to ScriptRunner.

I've also explored using Automation to mark the Epic from the Project, and then mark the Task from the Epic. When an Epic is created, if there is a relationship 'implements' then flag the issue as 'project-epic'. When a Task is created, if there is a Parent and the Epic has this 'project-epic' flag then flag the Task with 'project-task.' But I'm having issues with the nesting and when best to trigger the behavior.

Ideas?

Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_ · Answer

You can nest functions but please note in Jira cloud you need to use the issueFunction keyword first like the examples in the docs mention and you must run these on the enhanced search page in Jira Cloud.

bduncan · Answer

Can the functions be nested? In my example it would need to be something like...

issueInProject(issuesInEpic(Tasks)))

Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_ · Answer

Hi bduncan,

I can confirm that you can achieve this requirement using either the Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud plugin or the Enhanced Search feature of the ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud plugin.

Using this, you can use the issuesInEpics() function to find all issues that are tasks inside Epics.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian