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JQL can't find children of an Epic in a Kanban Board

Scot Mcphee

Hi, I've got a Kanban Board, and I've recently added Epics.

I'm trying to construct a JQL just to list all the children of a particular Epic. But it doesn't seem to think that any of the Epics have any children, even though I can clearly see the Epic in question does have child stories in the roadmap and elsewhere in the board.

If I try this query: `parentEpic = AOCD-18` ... the only result is the Epic itself. I've tried a variety of other functions/fields: parent, parentLink, issuesInEpic ... none of those return any results at all. How do I do this?

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Veera_zqt9p1

Unfortunately, the next-gen project doesn't support JQL for Epics yet. This is something we already considered to implement in the future.

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Jack Brickey

I’m curious, is this a nexgen Agility project?

Scot Mcphee

I've got no idea what that is in this specific context, sorry.

Scot Mcphee

I looked around in Jira to see if there was a version tag but I can't find one. It is a cloud instance. The Epics only recently appeared for my project type.

Grigory Salnikov_0hffsd

Hi!

Try "Epic Link" if there's such a field in your environment.

It's strange but I don't have any 'parentEpic' option.

Scot Mcphee

I tried 'Epic Link' and it doesn't return anything either.

The autosuggestions when I type that, also come up with two possibles (see below). Choosing either of these directly also fails to find anything.

Screenshot 2018-10-02 17.09.19.png

Scot Mcphee

However, when I switch back to "basic mode" it shows me "Epic Link" (twice) as a value I can search for:

Screenshot 2018-10-02 17.24.28.png

Selecting either of these two, sort-of works, but I have to select "all"... (all of the below occurs the same regardless of which of the two I use):

Screenshot 2018-10-02 17.24.44.png

You can see from the available suggestions, the possible values, which are weird:

Screenshot 2018-10-02 17.28.20.png

Then if I select one of those and press 'Update', it freaks out and tells me it's not an epic (see the error at the end of the list):

Screenshot 2018-10-02 17.28.40.png

If I persist and search anyway, it just goes back to saying "no results"

Scot Mcphee

Clicking 'Advanced' JQL shows me the query is:

project = AOCD AND issuetype = Story AND cf[10100] = AOCD-18

Emily Byars

I'll be curious to find out if this gets solved as well.

Scot Mcphee

I've filed a support ticket about it. I will update this thread with the resolution when I know.

Jack Brickey

@Scot Mcphee, the reason I asked if your AOCD project falls under the NextGen category is that Epics are done differently (many things are different). The concept of Epic Links do not exist. Epics have children but unsure how to ferret that out via JQL at the moment. While I have not spent much time w/ Agility project I do know that using JQL "Epic Link" will not return the children. I need to spend some time researching the 'replacement' if it exists.

Now based upon your images you have added it is clear that this is indeed an Agility project. Given that you are using Agility which remains beta you should use the "give feedback" button by clicking on your profile button in bottom left.

Ignacio Pulgar

You've got 2 custom fields named Epic Link. May you check in the custom field list if both of them are system locked? They should be labeled as such in the custom fields page for preventing deletion.

Veera_zqt9p1

Unfortunately, the next-gen project doesn't support JQL for Epics yet. This is something we already considered to implement in the future.

Scot Mcphee

Thank you for the information Veera.

I solved my issue in an immediate sense by adding to all the stories a tag indicating the epic and I can filter on that for the moment so I can have dashboards related to just one epic's stories.

It would be great if you could support nex-gen epics in JQL as soon as possible!

KahWen Tan

As a side note, there is now a feature request that people can vote for. (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-70695)

Scot Mcphee

voted for issue, thanks!

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