Reporting on status of subtasks

Question

I use JIRA subtasks to track action items.  I create a user story, then create subtasks in that user story for every action/deliverable.

I would like to extract those actions and their status in a report or dashboard.  Wondering if any has had this experience and knows how to do this.

Amay Purohit_RVS · Answer

Hi @dessmith

Welcome to the community !!

Since you are on Jira premium, Advanced roadmaps feature can be useful here. However not sure if this can be added as a dashboard gadget. If you would be interested in an app to help with this, you may want to try our plugin.

Issue Hierarchy

The app shows your Epic and its hierarchy in a tree view. The app can help you easily Sum up values (time tracking/story point/custom numeric fields) to see overall progress for your Issues (starting from sub tasksl) at each parent level, in percentage terms wrt time tracking and story points.

Also there are some special columns, like %complete which shows data based on the completion status of child issues at each parent level.

You can easily add it as a dashboard gadget too. Do try it out.

(Disclaimer: I work on RVS, the vendor for this app)

Matt Parks_sejswu · Answer

There are a couple of different basic ways to pull back subtasks in JQL, but it sort of depends on how you want to see the data.

issuetype in subTaskIssueTypes()  (you'd need to narrow this down further, but it's a start)

issuefunction in subtasksOf("xyz")   - - where xyz is a subquery that pulls in the parents of the subtasks you want to display. This is available through Scriptrunner, but it might be part of the Premium version of Cloud

You also could create a team board and use Stories as the swimlane, so all of the individual subtasks would be grouped together in a single swimlane, which would be their parent.