Hide Epics in a Structure view

[Lean Li]

Hi!

I have an issue hierarchy:

Initiative

    Epic

        Task

Epics are linked to Initiatives with Parent Link (from Advanced Roadmaps) and Tasks are linked to Epics with Epic Link.

Is it possible to create a hierarchy in Structure that only shows Initiatives and Tasks but not Epics?

With this JQL I can find issues that are linked to an Epic that is linked to an Initiative, but after that I am lost:

"issueFunction in issuesInEpics("issueFunction in portfolioChildrenOf(\"issuetype = Initiative\")")"

Also creating stucture with issuetype = Initiative and then extending it with child issues from advanced roadmaps + stories under epics includes the epics in my Stucture wich I don't in this case want.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Lean Li 

I do not have a DataCenter version of Jira with Structure to test this, but could you modify the JQL to not include Epics? If I understand your question correctly.

"issueFunction in issuesInEpics("issueFunction in portfolioChildrenOf(\"issuetype = Initiative\")") AND issuetype != epic"

[Lean Li]

Thank you, but this doesn't solve the issues, because I can't eg. group my view by the porfolio parent (=Initiative), because this JQL gives me tasks and tasks are not directly linked to Initiatives (only their parent Epics are).

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

I'm not sure I understood.

Do you want to hide epics in the view but not initiatives and tasks? And removing epics from the JQL is just showing the tasks and not the initiatives? or is it just removing the ability to group the tasks?

[Lean Li]

I want to hide epics in the view but not initiatives and tasks. And yes, removing epics from the JQL is just showing the tasks and not the initiatives.