I need to show the parent task of a sub task in a filter

[Riccardo Zaniboni]

I want to show a list of all sub tasks open and the related parent issue in a column.

project = XXX AND status = Open AND issuetype = Sub-task AND labels = XXX

How can I do it?

[Alexey Matveev _cPrime_]

Hello,

If you want to show the related parent issue, you should create a custom field, which would provide this information. Then you can add this field as a column in the Issue Navigator. You can create such a field with the Power Custom Fields add-on. It is a free add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210749/power-custom-fields

Or with ScriptRunner or any other plugin.

[Brant Schroeder]

Riccardo,

  I don't believe there is any delivered functionality that will allow you to do this.  You can use one of two plugins to accomplish this.

Scriptrunner or Craftforge Search Linked Issues for JIRA

More information can be found here about Craftforge - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/howto-filter-to-show-sub-tasks-of-a-filtered-list-of-parent-tasks-351109518.html

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

If you look at the scriptrunner option, I usually do it with a scripted field that does something like the pseudo-code of:

if (issue.issuetype in subtask-types)
  return issue.getParentIssue().getKey() + " : " + issue.getKey()
else
  return issue.getKey()

 This gives you a field that you can sort on by the parent ID and group all the sub-tasks with it.  I usually go a bit further and drop them out as urls to the issues, but you can see where I;'m going.

Craftforge will do the same job for you without having to write any code.

[Loïc Dewerchin]

The scriptrunner options works well with a scripted field like you suggested :).

In our case we just wanted to have the name of the parent of the subtask, not the keys.

Adding the script in case anyone has the same problem :

package your.package

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

def log = Logger.getLogger("your.package")
if (issue.isSubTask()){
//log.info("log something if you want");
return issue.getParentObject().getSummary(); 
}else{
//return null because we do not want the custom field to appear when there is no value
return null;
}

Don't forget to add "your.package" to the Logging  and profiling : "configure logging level for another package".

Use searcher "none" for your field config to not needlessly add extra indexing.

Just add the new scripted field as a column of your query result page.

[sudhakar]

Hi 

 can  get list of parent issues which are in To Do using   JQL Search Extensions plugin 

issue in parentOf("issueType = Bug") which gives us Find parents of subtasks with issue type = Bug. 

issue in subtaskOf("status = Open") which gives us subtasks of parents with status = Open.

Plugin Link : https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214791/jql-search-extensions-for-jira?hosting=server&tab=overview 

Regards,

Sudhakar