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parent()

Current issue

This function returns the parent issue of a given issue according to Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, i.e., the issue which is immediately above in the hierarchy. In the case that the given issue is a sub-task, its parent issue will be returned.

Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy includes:

  • Issues linked by Parent Link custom field.

  • Issues linked by Epic-Story link.

  • Sub-tasks in the lowest level of the hierarchy. Sub-tasks under issues in intermediate levels of the hierarchy are not considered to belong to Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy.

Example:

advanced-roadmaps-hierarchy-levels.png
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parent() #Output: Issue list

Examples

Parser expression

Description
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parent()

Considering that current issue is JWT-3, this expression returns the parent of this issue:

[JWT-1]

Output

This function returns an issue list

Issue list

Variant where you additionally define issues.

Duplicated issues are filtered from the output.

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parent(issueList) #Output: Issue list

Examples

Parser expression

Description
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parent(linkedIssues("is blocked by"))

Considering that expression linkedIssues("is blocked by") returns [JWT-4, JWT-8], this example returns the parent of these issues:

[JWT-1, JWT-2]

To achieve this the following functions are used:

Additional information

Parameters used in this function

Parameter

Input (data type)

Description

issueList

issue list

Any given issue list. Usually this value is retrieved from a function (e.g. linkedIssues() or issuesUnderEpic()).

Output

This function returns an issue list

Issue keys

Variant where you define issue keys instead.

Duplicated issues are filtered from the output.

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parent(issueKeys) #Output: Issue list

Examples

Parser expression

Description
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 parent("JWT-7, JWT-13")

This example returns parent issues of JWT-7 and JWT-13:
[JWT-2, JWT-12]

Additional information

Parameters used in this function

Parameter

Input (data type)

Description

issueKeys

text

A comma separated list of issue keys.

Output

This function returns an issue list

To return the issues just under an issue within the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, you might want to have a look into the issuesUnder() function.

To return all issues under an issue within the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, you might want to have a look into the allIssuesUnder() function.

To return all issues having the same parent within the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, you might want to have a look into the siblingIssues() function.

To return the parent of an issue within the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, you might want to have a look into the parent()  function.

To return all issues above an issue within the Advanced Roadmaps hierarchy, you might want to have a look into the issuesAbove() function.

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