HowTo: Filter to show sub tasks of a filtered list of parent tasks
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Cause
There's no native way in JIRA applications to show a list of only the sub-issues of a specific task. This is tracked as JRASERVER-59181 - Ability search for all issues under a given Epic (including subtasks).
Workaround
To work around this limitation, use the Craftforge Search Linked Issues for JIRA plugin to use a meta filter.
Install the plugin
Create a parent filter, that will catch your parent issues, and save the filter.
1project = MyProject AND fixVersion = "1.1.1" and issuetype in standardIssueTypes() and status != ClosedFor this example, assume that the parent filter is named ParentIssueFilter
Create the Sub-task filter:
1issue in subtaskIssuesFromFilter("ParentIssueFilter")
Resolution
To help improve the visibility of JRA-22153, please Vote for that issue. To remain appraised of the progress of that issue, please Watch the issue.
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