How do I create a filter for features with active stories in the current sprint?

[Stan Ponder]

In a nutshell - I am trying to provide a "level up" filter for features. The leaders only want to see features, but the problem with a basic query of "Project[Dropdown]" = (team/project name) AND issuetype = Feature AND status = In-Progress is that not all active features may have a story in the current sprint.

I know we should clean up our features and move them to the backlog if not being actively worked, but in the meantime, is there a query that will help with this?

[Charlotte Santos -Appfire-]

Hi @Stan Ponder 

I’m Charlotte, a support engineer at Appfire and I’m here to help you.

Unfortunately, using vanilla JQL, you’ll not be able to do it dynamically.

In the app where my team works, JQL Search Extensions for Jira, you can use this query to find all features whose stories are in the current sprint:

issue in parentsOfIssuesInQuery("type = story AND sprint in openSprints()") AND type = Feature 

Please contact our support if you have any other questions about this query.

We’ll be happy to help you!

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Stan Ponder

welcome to the community!

Unfortunately, this is trickier than one might think; as a hierarchical query, it would really require some kind of join or subquery, which isn't available in plain Jira/JQL.

To the best of my knowledge you'll need extra tooling for this:

• You might be able to use Jira Automation to "propagate" story information up to the feature, and then use the respective field(s) on the features to include them into your filter. Obviously, this will add a fair bit of complexity to your system.
• There's different apps from the Atlassian Marketplace that can help with that. First, there's a number of apps that extend JQL by additional functions, including hierarchy-related functions. E.g., the JQL Search Extensions app comes with a EpicsOfChildrenInQuery function, which I believe is what you'd need. 
• Alternatively, you could try one of the more hierarchy-focused apps from the Marketplace. These apps typically have their own ways of figuring out parent/child relationships between issues, and provide more powerful ways of searching through issue hierarchies. I myself work on such an app, in which your use case would be easy to solve - I'll provide more details below.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Just to expand on the last point, this is how this would look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira. Put simply, you'd create a sheet with all issues that are potentially relevant to you, enable the default issue hierarchy (that's just one click), and then use JXL filtering capabilities to narrow down to the issues that you care about:

Once you have your list of issues, you can work on these directly in JXL (much like you'd do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets), trigger various operations in Jira, or export them for further processing.

Any questions just let me know!