help with the - 'Tasks assigned to me" to me.

Question

Hi, I have the cloud version of Jira.

I really like the idea of this board.  But I have a little problem.  The way I've setup Jira is that issuetypes at the story level, are like epics, and then end user tasks are sub-tasks to those stories.  Therefore I have a lot of sub-tasks assigned to people.

When I use this widget, each user is getting a list of sub-tasks assigned to them from all the various initiatives they are working on, however they don't get the context for what they are about.  I want to be able to display the parent story, and even the epic (nice to have) that it belongs to.  I've played with the drop list in the config panel for the widget and all the various options don't work.

I also have script runner installed.

Let me know if there is another way to do this.

Thanks

Earl McCutcheon · Answer

Hello,

I see this thread is tagged with Adaptivist and if this in in relation to the extended JQL functions in ScriptRunner provided by the vendor Adaptivist, I believe what you are looking for is the parentIssueOf() scripted JQL provided by the ScriptRunner app.  and you would use something like:

issue function in parentOf("assignee= currentuser() and issuetype = subtask")

In Jira natively there is not an option to search for a parent of a subtask, only an option to search for the child issues using of a parent issuetype:

parent in (EXE-123,EXE-124)

Alternatively you can change the view in the issue navigator to the "List View" option and add in the Parent column which will show the parent issue of the subtasks assigned to the current user using the subquery from the one noted above:

assignee= currentuser() and issuetype = subtask

Regards,
Earl

Gabriel Senna · Answer

Hi Stu,

I believe you are talking about the gadget "Assigned to me". If so, there is an alternative of gadget, that you can use, to return your issues.

You can use the gadget "Filter Results". Using it, you can create a query that will return the Epic and it's stories.

For example:

assignee = currentUser() and (type = Epic or "Epic Link" is not empty)

This query, if saved and used in the filter, you return the Epics and issues that have a link with epic, that are assigned to me.

With this, you should achieve what you want.