Unable to see the sub-tasks of the epic in the epic report in jira.

[Shasheekant Patel]

I  am unable to see the sub-tasks of the epic in the epic report while I have numbers of sub-task of the task in the epic. I want to get the epic report containing task and sub-task of the epic of the project.

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Shasheekant Patel

if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including the ability to view your issues in their full epic/story/sub-task hierarchy in just one click:

You can also easily narrow this down to one particular epic, if that's what you're after.

I should add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies (e.g. based on issue links), to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting. 

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Shasheekant Patel]

Thanks for an update.

[David Friedrich]

Hi @Shasheekant Patel - welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I am afraid that is not how the Epic Report works. If you click on View in Issue Navigator and switch to advanced search (=JQL) you will see something like this:

"Epic Link" = "YOURPROJECT-1"

So the report only references the epic link. Subtasks however have no direct relation to epics. They are linked one level below so to speak directly to their tasks or stories and hence not shown in this report.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/view-and-understand-the-epic-report/

[Shasheekant Patel]

Hi David,

Is there any way or trick to view the Subtasks also in the Epic Report as I want to show the report to the management.

[David Friedrich]

No, I'm afraid not. This is a built in report and you can not change the filter behind it.

The JQL you'd need would be parentEpic = your epic key,
ie parentEpic = YOURPROJECT-1

However, there is a app on the marketplace that could help a little with making progress transparent over epic > task > subtask:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1225062/epic-subtask-issue-viewer?hosting=cloud&tab=pricing

It is free up to ten users.

[Amay Purohit_RVS]

Hi @Shasheekant Patel 

If you would be interested in a mktplace app, you can try out

Issue Hierarchy 

Through this app you can visualize your complete issue hierarchy and much more. Do Try it out.

Disclaimer : I am part of the team which developed this app

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Shasheekant Patel,

As an alternative to the limited Epic report of Jira, you could try the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) gadget offered by our Great Gadgets app.  

This gadget displays the issues from a filter by their hierarchy in form of Epic > Story, Task > Sub-Task along with their current status, thus giving you a quick overview about the work content and progress. 

All you have to do is to create a filter that returns the issues from the epic(s) and to configure the gadget to use it. The filter's JQL can be like this:

parentEpic in (EPIC-1, EPIC2)

In addition, you could create also an epic burndown chart by using the Release Burnup Burndown Chart gadget offered by the same app, with the sub-tasks included!

 

Have a look over the articles from our blog to see how many things you can track with this app. It can be a great asset for your team/company.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@stonikbyte.com.

Thank you,

Danut.

[Antuan Sammak]

Hi @Shasheekant Patel 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

can you please advise about the name of report you are trying to use?

one option would be is to create a release version and assign it to all tickets that fall under the Epic including subtasks, then use the pre-built reports in Jira that rely on Fix Version.

Regards,

[Shasheekant Patel]

Hi Antuan,

I am trying to use "Epic Report" and when I am selecting a specific Epic of the project, it shows only the task while I have some sub-task also in the task.

[Antuan Sammak]

@Shasheekant Patel  please try to use parentEpic = {{epic key}}

[Antuan Sammak]

@Shasheekant Patel  have you tried using parentEpic = {{epic key}} filter query?