Jira Dashboard : how to show linked issues collected by status?

Question

Hello team,

We use a Jira Dashboard to track all our Epics targeting a certain release. Each Epic has some prereqs that need to be met for the Epic to move from one milestone to the next. These pre-reqs are linked 'Document' issues with the Epic set as 'Epic Link'.

We want to be able to track the status of these linked 'Document' issues by their status.

I cannot find a way to query for the linked issues.

I do see an option to query for 'Subtasks' in a 'Smart Filter' as follows and am looking for an equivalent for linked issues (that are not subtasks).

issue in subtask("summary ~ 'XYZ Approval' and status = 'Not Applicable'")

The Rich Filter query for the Dashboard is something like this:

project = def AND fixVersion in ("ABCD") AND issuetype = epic AND Status not in (Accepted, Duplicate)

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Answer

Hi @Shruti Pareek,

I'm afraid that this is not possible without an app (plugin).

If you're open to using an app from the Atlassian Marketplace, a good option would be the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) gadget available in our Great Gadgets app.

Configured with Visualization Mode: Linked Issues View and a filter/JQL that returns only your epics, it can display those epics along with their linked issues, like in this example:

Danut

Shruti Pareek · Answer

Thank you for your response, Pasam.

As I wrote to Trudy, although I can run the suggested query from you independently from the Dashboard, I cannot use it for the Dashboard because it must work as an 'ADD' to the Rich Filter query

so something like this --

project = def AND fixVersion in ("ABCD") AND issuetype = epic AND Status not in (Accepted, Duplicate)

and

issueFunction in linkedIssuesOf("project=DEF") AND issueLinkType = "relates to" AND statusCategory != "Done"

But the issueLinkType and statusCategory components are useful and I will try this out with some tweaks today and report back.

Thanks,

Shruti

Shruti Pareek · Answer

Thank you for your response, Trudy.

Yes, I'm able to run the query with 'issue in subtask("...")'

I believe this is ScriptRunner's query functions and my company has the add-on for it. I can run the 'relates to' query that Pasam has noted above independently of the Dashboard query BUT not with the Dashboard query.

The problem is this query has to be added on to the Rich Filter of the dashboard, so something like this --

project = def AND fixVersion in ("ABCD") AND issuetype = epic AND Status not in (Accepted, Duplicate)

and

issue in subtask("summary ~ 'XYZ Approval' and status = 'Not Applicable'")

Thanks,

Shruti