How do I remove an completed epic from Epic panel on backlog?

[Mark Brierley]

I've updated the "status" of the epic to be "done", but it has not fallen off my backlog's epic panel (weirdly, I thought it HAD fallen off previously, but is suddenly back.... bug?...). 

I see other posts about this, but they aren't helpful since they all reference changing the "epic status" field to "done", but I don't see that anywhere... not in the epic details on the backlog, not in the epic details when I bring up the full page epic, and not in the configuration settings for epics. 

[Curt Holley]

Hi @Mark Brierley 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

I just do a filter like this

project = XX AND (type != Epic or type = Epic AND status != Done) ORDER BY Rank ASC

But....this is a way of syncing the issue status (in the workflow) with the Epic status: Linking Epic Status to the Epic Issue Status | Jira | Atlassian Documentation

But you still need a very similar filter:

project = XX AND (type != Epic or type = Epic AND "Epic Status" != Done) ORDER BY Rank ASC

[Mark Brierley]

That seems supremely over-complicated to change an "epic status". Do I really need to do all that?

[Curt Holley]

No, you don't have to, but that is how you ensure your epics are Done/Done/Done.

This is good: Solved: How to hid completed Epics in the "EPICS" side vie... (atlassian.com)

[Mark Brierley]

Further details: I'm in a free account and this is a team-based project. 

re: the above article you recommended, I did read that one, but I don't see any of those options.

Here's what they suggest in the article: 

Here's the Epic panel in my backlog. I don't have a "Mark as Done" option

If I click VIEW ALL DETAILS, I see this.... and I if I scroll beyond that I can see all the detail options for the epic, but there is no "epic status".  

[Curt Holley]

Right, Team Managed project is a key piece of information.

Off the top of my head, perhaps an Automation rule?

When Epic transitioned to Done, update the Epic Status field to Done.

[Mark Brierley]

Yeah, there's no Epic status anywhere to be found in Team Managed Product epic. It was also Kanban style. So none of that will be useful. 

I set up a company managed project and it does have the mark as done. Might just have to migrate to that. 

It makes no sense that there isn't a way to get an Epic off of that panel list, as it's going to cause so much clutter.  That's why I thought it was maybe a bug. 

[Mark Brierley]

After playing with team vs company projects, seems like there is a different UX for managing "Done" Epics in Team-based projects. There is no "Epic Status" that I can find, so guess that's a feature request.