JIRA : Need a filter to query all the tasks and stories that does not have parents

Praveen Kumar G T

Hi,

Our current hierarchy for our Projects is that we have multiple epics, Each Epic have multiple stories and Each Stories have either have multiple tasks or subtasks.

Even after our best effort, some create stories/tasks without linking them properly to an epic/story. We want to find this outliers, so I want a JQL query which will list all the stories and tasks that is DOES NOT have a parent

Regards,

Praveen.

Daniel Deng

Hi Praveen

For links with parent of epic, you can try jql "issuetype = yourissuetype and epic link is empty", which returns the issues that do not have an Epic as parent.

I am curious of how you linked a Task as a child of a Story. What is the type (in global issue type setting) of your Task, Standard or Sub-Task? All Sub-Task issue types should have a parent, therefore, you don't need to worry about it.

If your Task is Standard issue type, then it can only be a child of an Epic, unless you are using some plugin to create more hierarchies than Jira out of box.