How to get the Epic name in Google Sheets using Jira Cloud for Sheets?

Question

Hi!
I'm using the Jira Cloud for Sheets add-on to import data from Jira into Google Sheets. I can retrieve the Epic Link (i.e., the Epic issue key), but I can't figure out how to get the Epic name (Summary) instead of just the ID.

Is there a way to get the name of the Epic linked to an issue, either directly in the JQL query or through another field?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Adrian Kornecki

welcome to the community!

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on: JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of so-called smart columns that aren’t natively available, including the parent summary.

This is how it looks in action:

As you can see above, you can easily sort and filter by the parent summary, and also use it across JXL's advanced features, such as support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

Plus, it is of course included in any XLSX or CSV export of your sheet.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

Dick · Answer

Hi @Adrian Kornecki Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

JQL offers you to use smart values. These are documented by Atlassian.

For any Jira work item (formerly known as issue) you can have:

{{issue.summary}}  , which prompts you the summary string.

Kind regards,

Dick