Find nested parent relationships for Advanced Roadmaps

[Vincent Lucero]

Problem

I am beginning to use JIRA Advanced Roadmaps and we have enough tickets across enough projects it is only feasible to use Search Filters as my issue selector for populating the Advanced Roadmap.

We use the following hierarchy:

Initiative

Epic

Story

Unfortunately, JQL does not appear to me to have a built in way to look for "nested children" Stories underneath a given Initiative since the Parent Link field only displays the next level above.

Put another way, I have no way to recursively find the children under all the Epics in a given initiative.

I found a similar issue discussed at:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-discussions/Constraints-and-best-practices-for-Parent-Link-in-Advanced/td-p/1778272

Would be great to know if anyone has a workaround that is free vs paid extension.

Thanks!

[Alexey Matveev]

ScriptRunner will not help you with you task. The only way to use Java Script but this solution is not mantainable.

[Payne]

@Alexey Matveev - I've read about other Javascript solutions that are similarly described as "not maintainable". What does that mean in the context of Jira?

Thanks!
-Payne

[Alexey Matveev]

It means that it can have bugs and also it would be difficult for other developers to find you java script and make it work or fix it.

[Payne]

Gotcha; thanks!

[Grigory Salnikov]

Hi!

I've found a similar question here.

Have a look at Benji Mommen's script down there.

I haven't tried it but it looks as it may work.