Creating a Swimlane based on a Keyword in the Summary

[sadair]

HI,

I want to create swimelanes for my Sprint board. There are Key words in the summary titles for the tickets such as Dev, Design, Discovery as a prefix to the rest of the title. I want the swimlanes to be separated into these areas, Dev, Design , Discovery.

I want to cover all types except subtasks

I tried using summary  ~ "/Dev/" but it came as an error.

If you could help, that would be great.

TIA

[Jasmeet Kaur]

Hello @sadair 

Welcome to Atlassian Community 

For each swimlane, you can use the following JQL queries:

• Dev Swimlane:

summary ~ "Dev*" AND issuetype != Sub-task

• Design Swimlane:

summary ~ "Design*" AND issuetype != Sub-task

• Discovery Swimlane:

summary ~ "Discovery*" AND issuetype != Sub-task

After adding the queries, save your changes.

These queries will create swimlanes for issues with summaries starting with "Dev," "Design," and "Discovery," excluding any subtasks. Make sure to replace the asterisk (*) with the appropriate wildcard character if your Jira instance uses a different syntax.

[sadair]

thx, will have a try

[Priyanka Khare]

Hello @sadair 

Yes, you can totally set up swimlanes based on keywords like Dev, Design, and Discovery in the issue summary.

The reason summary ~ "/Dev/" didn’t work is because Jira doesn’t support regex in that way. Just use something like this instead:

Dev: issuetype != Sub-task AND summary ~ "Dev"

Design: issuetype != Sub-task AND summary ~ "Design"

Discovery: issuetype != Sub-task AND summary ~ "Discovery"

This should work fine as long as those words are in the summary. Just make sure you’re in the Board settings > Swimlanes and using the Queries option.

Let me know if you run into any issues!

[sadair]

thx, will try it out

[pawarsachin84]

Hello @sadair

Welcome to the Atlassian Community! 😊

Thank you for your question.

You can try below JQL and use swimlanes as quires.

JQL - 

Project = "Demo Project" AND Summary ~ Test AND issuetype != Sub-task

Swimlanes as Quires - 

You will get the result as -