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Asked: 2026-06-06T11:33:45+00:00

In Rally, I was trying to query for a items in the tree that

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In Rally, I was trying to query for a items in the tree that contained the word “Feature”. I tried querying for (Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name contains “Feature”) etc by checking whether any of the parent names have the word “Feature” in them. My approach does not work. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks.

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    As Charles notes, it isn’t possible to traverse a parent hierarchy via a single Rally Query. Ultimately, it will be possible to pull an entire hierarchy and filter on naming and other criteria using the (currently alpha) Lookback API and queries similar to that described in this article:

    Lookback API: Find all leaf node stories under a known parent

    Until then, you can traverse the hierarchy of parents using the AppSDK and recursive calls to the find() method of rallyDataSource. I’ve included a simple that does this:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <meta name="Name" content="App Example: Parent Name Contains Story Hierarchy"/>
   <title>Parent Name Contains Story Hierarchy</title>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="/apps/1.27/sdk.js"></script>
   <script>

     var rallyDataSource;

     function parentNameRecursionExample() {
       var parentStoryHierarchy = function(results) {

         var storyInfo = "";
         var story = "";
         var parentFormattedID = "";
         for (i=0 ; i < results.stories.length ; i++) {
           story = results.stories[i];
           if (story.Parent != null) {
               parentName = story.Parent.Name;

               var testContains = "Parent";
               if (parentName.indexOf(testContains) != -1) {

                   storyInfo += story.FormattedID +
                           ', ' + story.Name +
                           ', Parent:' + story.Parent.FormattedID +
                           ': ' + story.Parent.Name + '<br>';
                   aDiv.innerHTML += storyInfo;
               }

               parentFormattedID = story.Parent.FormattedID;

               var queryConfig = {
                 type : 'HierarchicalRequirement',
                 key : 'stories',
                 fetch: 'FormattedID,Name,Parent',
                 query: '(FormattedID = \"' + parentFormattedID + '\")'
               };

               rallyDataSource.findAll(queryConfig, parentStoryHierarchy);
           } else {
               storyInfo += story.FormattedID +
                   ', ' + story.Name +
                   ', Parent: No Parent';
               aDiv.innerHTML += storyInfo;

           }
         }
       };

       var queryConfig = { 
          type : 'HierarchicalRequirement',
          key : 'stories',
          fetch: 'FormattedID,Name,Parent',//,
          query: '(FormattedID = \"US130\")'
       };

        rallyDataSource = new rally.sdk.data.RallyDataSource('__WORKSPACE_OID__',
                                                  '__PROJECT_OID__',
                                                   '__PROJECT_SCOPING_UP__', 
                                                  '__PROJECT_SCOPING_DOWN__'); 
       rallyDataSource.findAll(queryConfig, parentStoryHierarchy);
     }

     rally.addOnLoad(parentNameRecursionExample);
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="aDiv"></div>
</body>
</html>

    It traverses a Story Hierarchy that looks like this:

    Story Hierarchy

    And filters for stories containing “Parent” in the Story Name, producing the following output:

    Filtered Story Hierarchy output from App

    Understood the sample is a rough cut and not very pretty, not as elegant or easy as a single query, but it illustrates how to traverse the tree and filter for the results you are looking for.

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