Hi, wondering if anyone can please help. I have a user that wants to use Jira for reporting on projects, so basically we have 8 projects at the highest level, below them then are other projects that are of issue type 'key initative', the below that are the subtask. The PM wants to be able to do a serch inside a project for a specific key initative and list the sub-task...i wrote this search thinking it would work project = " " AND issuekey = AND issuetype = Sub-task but no results are found if i search for project = " " AND issuekey = it does find the key initiative(issue) but i can't find a search that drills down There is a specific label against the Key Initiative and sub tasks and if i search for project = " " AND issuekey = AND labels = EAADR then it just find the Key Initative again and can't drill down and find more. any ideas?

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Jira Search: Search can't drill down past the main Issue to sub tasks

Jennnifer O'Bri

Hi, wondering if anyone can please help. I have a user that wants to use Jira for reporting on projects, so basically we have 8 projects at the highest level, below them then are other projects that are of issue type 'key initative', the below that are the subtask. The PM wants to be able to do a serch inside a project for a specific key initative and list the sub-task...i wrote this search thinking it would work

project = "<name of project>" AND issuekey = <issue key that is associated with key initative> AND issuetype = Sub-task

but no results are found

if i search for project = "<name of project>" AND issuekey = <issue key that is associated with key initative> it does find the key initiative(issue) but i can't find a search that drills down

There is a specific label against the Key Initiative and sub tasks and if i search for

project = "<name of project>" AND issuekey = <issue key that is associated with key initative> AND labels = EAADR then it just find the Key Initative again and can't drill down and find more.

any ideas?

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Peter Van de Voorde

Jennifer

You can use the field parent = "issue key that is associated with key initative" to find all the sub tasks.

Best regards

Peter

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Peter Van de Voorde

Jennifer

You can use the field parent = "issue key that is associated with key initative" to find all the sub tasks.

Best regards

Peter

Peter Van de Voorde

you can use an OR in your queries, so just do a query for the main task (on issuekey) and combine it with the query for the sub tasks.

Like this : (query key initative) OR (query subtasks)

That should work.

Jennnifer O'Bri

thanks so much peter, that worked. is there a way i can list the key initative and the subtasks all in one search?

Jennnifer O'Bri

Hi Peter, thanks for your help with this. I am just learning how to do the advance search. Is there a limit as to how long the code can be...as in i want to identfy the project ad sub tasks but then want to see what issues within that are in specific status, backlog and To-do, do i section them off with () or what way do i write it? any help would be really appreciated...

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