How to search only parent issues in JIRA?

Question

Is there a way where we can only search parent issues and not sub-tasks in a project.

For example: If we have 1000 issues in a project out of which 100 are the parent issues and rest 900 are sub-tasks. SO is there a way to search only those 100 parent tasks in JIRA.

rafael.angel · Answer

If you know the parent issue and the project you can use the following advanced search through JQL: project = AND parent =

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Oops, thanks Jamie - I've only ever used "in subtaskType".  Should have realised there was a similar one for parent types.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Um.

>as I have 'Bug' issue type as a parent issue and 'Bug' as a subtask as well

No, you don't.  Probably.  Issue names *must* be unique in Jira. I suspect you've probably got something like "Bug" and "Bug." or " Bug" (note the whitespace).  If you have really got two issue types with the same name, then you've hacked something and you really do need to rename them to be unique or you'll run into problems.

The JQL will work, but I'm not sure exactly which version that function arrived in.