JQL Query to find child issues of an Epic

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JQL Query to find child issues of an Epic

[Muhammad Ramzan(Atlassian Certified Master)]

JQL Search Extensions for Jira & reports can help you to get all issues with sub tasks for epic

for example

Following query will get all issues and sub tasks related to the epic id "test-24" , please see the attached image.

issue in allIssuesInEpic(test-24)

here is the documentation link for all queries.

https://jqlsearchextensions.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SEARCH/pages/30497099/JQL+Reference+Server#JQLReference(Server)-LinkedIssueType

[Jack Brickey]

"Epic Link" = ABC-123

this will give you all stories/tasks associated w/ the specific epic

[Paul Matteucci]

Hey Jack,

this doesn't give me the sub-tasks tho. 

Any idea how to get those?

Thanks

[Jack Brickey]

You can’t achieve that out of the box. There are many posts in the community discussing this matter. Here is a good example that might help explain options - JQL-Query-Sub-Tasks-Parent-Epic-or-User-Story 

basically you’ll need an add-on to achieve this.

[Paul Matteucci]

I found how to do it!

there's a command called parentEpic, it does exactly this:

parentEpic in (EPIC-1, EPIC-2)

it's built into Jira, no need for external add-ons 

[Jack Brickey]

ahhhhhh yes that was added awhile back. if you know the epic id that works well

[Evgen Kyselgov]

Maybe it's better to use combination of "Epic Link" and "parent"?

("Epic Link" = YourIssueKey) OR (parent = YourIssueKey)

[Fanny Rubiño Lavín]

parentEpic in (EPIC-1, EPIC-2)

This just return the epic in the parentheses to me. Not the child issues.

[Evgen Kyselgov]

parentEpic is strange function. I don't see it in documentation page From other side there is function "Epic Link" = YourEpicKey that should return list of children issues.
But it returns epic's children only, not sub-tasks if they are present for Epic,