how to find subtasks from a base query like "Approved By"

RM May 27, 2023

Hello,

Can anyone help us how to find subtasks from a base query like "Approved" field without ScriptRunner?

JQL function 'subtaskissuesfromquery'

(Approved = user picker custom field ) in jira cloud.

Thanks,
Rahul

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Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
Atlassian Partner
February 5, 2024

Hi @Rahul M 

unfortunately, this is trickier than one might think; as a hierarchical query, it would really require some kind of join or subquery, which isn't available in plain Jira/JQL.

A few directions forward:

  • If it's a one-off thing, you could first query the relevant parents, and then use the keys of these parent in a second query, in a "parent in (KEY-1, KEY-2, ...)" clause.

If you want to run your search dynamically, without manually stitching two queries together, you'll need extra tooling:

  • You might be able to use Jira Automation to propagate parent information down to the children, and then use the respective field(s) on the children to include them into your filter. Obviously, this will add a fair bit of complexity to your system.
  • There's different apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that can help with that. First, there's a number of apps that extend JQL by additional functions, including hierarchy-related functions. You've mentioned ScriptRunner, but there's many more.
  • Alternatively, you could try one of the more hierarchy-focused apps from the Marketplace. These apps typically have their own ways of figuring out parent/child relationships between issues, and provide more powerful ways of searching through issue hierarchies. I myself work on such an app, in which your use case would be easy to solve - I'll provide more details below.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
Atlassian Partner
February 5, 2024

Just to expand on the last point, this is how this would look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira. Put simply, you'd create a sheet with all issues that are potentially relevant to you, enable the default issue hierarchy (that's just one click), and then use JXL filtering capabilities to narrow down to the issues that you care about:

subtasks-by-parent-label.gif

(I'm using labels here, but it would work the same way with any other field.)

Once you have your list of issues, you can work on these directly in JXL (much like you'd do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets), trigger various operations in Jira, or export them for further processing.

Any questions just let me know!

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