The Field Grouper allows you to group issues by most standard Jira fields.

Adding a Field Grouper

To add a Field Grouper, open the Add menu and select Group.

This will display the Group generator options. Select Field.

Configuring the Generator

Each Field Grouper can be customized to create exactly the hierarchy you need.

Runs As

Field

Select the field issues should be grouped by.

Moving items in the structure will update groups

If checked, you can update an issue's field simply by dragging it to a new group. For examples, if you have grouped by assignee, moving an issue to another assignee group will reassign the issue.

This option is only available for the following fields: assignee, sprint, status. 

Consider other Groups

By default, Group generators ignore data added to your structure by other Group generators, because in most cases the added data doesn't group well.

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.

See Generator Scope to learn more.

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:

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.