Show total estimates of user stories in epics?
Asked by Bas Prins:

Hi,

We are looking for any way to show accumulated estimates so that we can have a rough idea how much work an epic / a user story is.

We don't care which way of working we need to follow, we just want to have any parent -\> child relation which allows Jira to accumulate estimates. So either:

- an epic which shows the accumulated estimates of its child user stories

- or a user story which shows all accumulated estimates of its child sub tasks

I tried to fiddle around with automation, but I also wasn't able to get it working there.

Thanks a lot in advance!


Answers:
author: Danut M _StonikByte_
body: Hi [@Bas Prins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4141977),

Where do you want to see that info? On the epic's View screen, as a report, in a dashboard gadget?

Jira displays the accumulated estimates for the epics in Backlog screen of the agile board - all you have to do it to turn on the epics panel.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/342155i4E6EB7058B71E58B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Hope this helps.

Danut

comments: author: Bas Prins
body: Hmm, that's a bit surprising. I must be missing something then.  

Backlog screen:

![backlog.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/342162i55A16E2047DB95F2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "backlog.png")

This epic contains user stories with estimates:

![epic.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/342163i5B4F78BDACD2BC91/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "epic.png")

Any clue what I am doing wrong?


author: Danut M _StonikByte_
body: It's like this because you are on a team-managed project. In my example I used a company-managed project...

Sorry, I don't know how to make your board look like the ones from company-managed projects :(

Danut.


author: Danut M _StonikByte_
body: An alternative would be to look for an app from Atlassian Marketplace. For example, our [Great Gadgets app](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=stonikbyte%20great%20gadgets%20agile) includes a **Pivot Table \& Pivot Chart gadget** that allows you to display accumulated estimates for each epic.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/342173i1CBD67BAEBFE811E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Or accumulated estimates split by for each status or status category:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/342174iFCA108F424E0B206/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Hope this helps.

Danut.


author: shib saha
body: Hey [@Bas Prins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4141977) , Did you check these articles for summing up the story points or estimate to its parents

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/How-to-sum-up-logged-hours-using-automation-in-Jira-Cloud/ba-p/1409115>

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library/sum-up-story-points>

Please let us know how it goes. Thanks


author: Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
body: Hi [@Bas Prins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4141977)

just to add to [@shib saha](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4610701)'s great answer:

If you're open to solutions from the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/), there's a number of apps available that can help with this. These apps usually have their own ways of doing these sum-ups/accumulations, and therefore don't impact your Automation budget.

I myself happen to work on an app in which your use case might be easy to solve. I'll add more information below.

Best,

Hannes

comments: author: Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
body: ... and just to expand on my last point: If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you might like the app that my team and I are working on, [JXL for Jira](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224710?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=atlassian-community&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=2785300).

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 support for (configurable) *issue hierarchies* , *issue grouping* by any issue field(s), *sum-ups* , or *conditional formatting*.

With these, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

![estimate-sum-up.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/341986i1571886E4A3A6814/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "estimate-sum-up.gif")

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views and reports; you can also view and group by any other issue fields, configure different sum-up styles, etc. etc.

Any questions just let me know!


author: Bas Prins
body: Hmm, this app would be free for less than 10 users. We're smaller than 10. Would that bite us in the \&!@ or do you dare to say that we'd be allowed to use this app for free?


author: Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
body: Hi [@Bas Prins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4141977)

Marketplace apps are [priced based on the license size of your Jira site](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/marketplace#which-license-do-i-choose-when-purchasing-an-app). So if your Jira site is licensed for ten or less users, it's 100% free.

Best,

Hannes


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