Create a board that shows issue with linked issues in other projects

Question

We have project A.

For some issues there need to be development in other projects.
For this we have a status and automatically creates statuses on the other projects (Project B) .

Now I want to create a extra board on Project A which shows issues from Project B which have a linked issue on Project A.

I tried this:

project = "*Project B" AND issueLinkType IS NOT EMPTY AND issue IN linkedIssues("(project = Project A)") ORDER BY created DESC

But get a error back: Issue '(project = Project A)' could not be found in function 'linkedIssues'.

All help would be welcome!

Cristiano Alves -Appfire- · Answer

Hello @Max

I'm Cristiano with the Appfire team here.

Unfortunately, this is not directly available with native JQL.

The software our team works, JQL Search Extension for Jira, would help you with that with the following query:

Project = "Project A" AND (issue in linkedIssuesOfQuery("Project = 'Project B'"))

You then save this query as a filter, and are able to use it anywhere in Jira.

You're also able to even query for more specific issues, I.E. with labels, fields, users, and so on.
If you have nay doubt on how to set this up, or just the application in general, feel free to contact our support team.

Regards,

Izabela França · Answer

Hello @Max ,

I belive a possible workaround would be to create a new issue link type specifically for this scenario. That way, you could filter the issues by project and link type using a JQL. Foe example:

projet=A AND issueLinkType="newLinkTypeCreated"

Els Bassant · Answer

Hi Max,

issue IN linkedIssues("") only works with single issues.

* issue IN linkedIssues(DEMO-1) will give you all issues linked to DEMO-1.

You can specify the link type with this as well

* issue IN linkedIssues("DEMO-1", "is blocked by")

Unfortunately I don't think what you want is available out-of-the box. If you have Scriptrunner installed you can use the "issuefunction in LinkedIssuesOf()" function which does accept another JQL as an argument:

project = "Project A" and issuefunction in linkedIssuesOf("project = Project B")

But again, this requires Scriptrunner to work.

Hope this helps,

Els