JQL Assistance - Retrieve the Children of multiple Initatives

Question

I want to create a filter to retrieve the children of multiple initiatives but have not been successful

An initiative is the parent to an Epic in our structure

Id like to retrieve all the initiative children (Epics, Stories, Bug, etc) for a plan

Can you assist?

Rachel Wright · Answer

Hi @Lee Street, the JQL capabilities can be limiting sometimes. To do more, you'll likely need the help of an app from the Atlassian Marketplace. Check out the comment from Prosper for an example. :)

Prosper Agwegiokhe_wkahkr · Answer

Hi @Lee Street,

My name is Prosper, and I’m a support engineer at Appfire. I’m here to help.

If you’re open to a plugin suggestion, I recommend trying our app, JQL Search Extensions for Jira.

You can use the following query:

issue in childrenOfIssuesInQueryRecursive("key in ('issueKey1', 'issueKey2') and type=Initiative")

This query will recursively return the children of the issues "'issueKey1', 'issueKey2'".

For more details about these queries, feel free to refer to our documentation, and don't hesitate to reach out to our support team if you have any further questions.

We’d be happy to assist you!

Best regards,
Prosper.

Lee Street · Answer

Thanks Rachel, how do I do that for multiple initiatives, not just one though in one JQL filter?