Sub-tasks

This page provides information on various functions used to find issues with sub-tasks and parents:

Find issues with sub-tasks (`hasSubtasks`)

Use hasSubtasks() to find issues with sub-tasks:


issueFunction in hasSubtasks()

Use subtasksOf() to find the sub-tasks of issues specified by the subquery:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("subquery")

You can leave the subquery as an empty string to find all subtasks of any issue:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("")

Additional example

See an additional example on our Issue Links page for how to Find all issues in an epic, and their subtasks.

We want to find all subtasks in project SSP that do not have a resolution:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("project = SSP") AND resolution is empty

We want to find all unresolved sub-tasks of resolved issues in project SSP:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("project = SSP AND resolution is not empty") AND resolution is empty

We want to find all sub-tasks of issues that are in the To do status:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("status = 'To do'")

We want to find all sub-tasks that are Open, but their parent issue has a resolution of Fixed:


issueFunction in subtasksOf("resolution = Fixed") AND status = Open

Use parentsOf() to find the parents of issues specified by the subquery:


issueFunction in parentsOf("subquery")

In this context, parent issues are any issues that have sub-tasks. This function does not cover Epic-Story or Epic-Task relationships.

We want to find any resolved parent issues in project SSP that still have open sub-tasks:


resolution is not empty AND issueFunction in parentsOf("project = SSP AND resolution is empty")

We want find all parent issues where the current user is the assignee of an open sub-task:


issueFunction in parentsOf("resolution is empty AND assignee = currentUser()")

We want to find all parent issues that have at least one sub-task In progress, in the SSP project:


issueFunction in parentsOf("project = JRA AND status = 'In progress'")