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The Group by Field generator allows you to group issues by most standard Jira fields.Structure with Field GrouperImage Removed

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Info

Placement matters. Generators only affect issues beneath them, so if you want to group the entire structure, place the generator at the very top. If you place it anywhere else, it will only group the items beneath it.

Adding a Group by Field generator

To add a Group by Field generator, open the Add menu and select Group.Add a Group generatorImage Removed

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This will display the Group generator options. Select Field.Select the type of Group generatorImage Removed

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Configuring the Generator

Each Group by Field generator can be customized to create exactly the hierarchy you need.Image Removed

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Runs As

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Field

Select the field issues should be grouped by.

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Let's look at the scenario above, where we grouped our structure by both Sprint and Status. Here's a breakdown of how that works:

  1. Structure starts with your top level issues (or adds them with an Insert generator).

  2. Next, it applies the first Group generator in our list, the Group by Sprint. This creates a new level in your hierarchy.

  3. Then Structure applies the Group by Status generator. At this point, the true "current" level is a list of sprints, which are not issues and don't have statuses to group them by. So Structure ignores these items, and creates the new group of statuses based on the original issues.

Group on level

Allows you to specify which level within the hierarchy the grouping should be applied to:

  • Levels are based on the placement of the generator, where "Level 1" is the level the generator is located on, "Level 2" is the level beneath that, and so on.

Place the generator on

Select where the generator should be placed within the structure hierarchy. This location will be considered "Level 1" when determining which level the grouping is applied to (see "Group on level" above).

You have three options:

  • Current level - The generator will be placed on the currently-selected level. 

  • Level below - The generator will be placed on the level below the currently-selected item.

  • Top level - The generator will be placed at the top of the structure.

Info

If a level is grayed out, it means it is not possible to place the generator on that level.

See Generator Scope to learn more.

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When items in the structure do not have values for the group, they will be placed in a special folder flex item at the buttom of the grouping level, such as "No epics" (when grouping by epics) or "Unassigned" (when grouping by assignee). No epics folderImage Removed

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This can be very useful when trying to identify items that don't have a value for a particular field. For example, we can quickly see that Story 6 is not linked to an epic. To link it to an epic, we can simply drag it to the appropriate folderflex item.

Grouping Order

Generators are applied to the current level, in the order they appear in the structure.

In the example below, we used an Insert generator to add issues, and then added Group by Sprint and Group by Status generators. Two new levels were created, grouping our issues first by Sprints and then by Status:Grouping Order - Sprints FirstImage Removed

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To rearrange the hierarchy so that Status is at the top level, followed by Sprints, simply reorder the generators, so that Group by Status is above Group by Sprint.

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