Group By Epic when Epics are filtered out?

[Javier Arce]

If I filter out the EPICs on a kanban board, I can not select epics for group by, which makes no sense, as the EPIC info is on the tickets. How can I achieve this?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Javier Arce 

If you want to group by Epics you will have to include the Epics in the scope of the board filter.

Jira's capability to group by Epics requires that.

The ability to group by data in fields in items is limited. Atlassian supports that only for specific fields, and the Parent field is not one of the supported fields.

While the parent Epic information is included in a field in the issue, the parent Epic is not the only use for that field. That field is also used for identifying the parent item for Subtasks, and parent items for Epics and other item types that are available when the item type hierarchy is extended (available in the Premium and Enterprise plans). Jira has not been enhanced in a manner that it can group by Parent generically.

[Javier Arce]

So Jira being Jira.

Thanks.

[Trudy Claspill]

The other option, if you are working with a Company Managed project board or board based on a filter (i.e. not available in the native Team Managed project board) is to do Group By Queries and create a query for each Epic

parent = <Epic Key #1>

parent = <Epic Key #2:

Totally not dynamic, but it is, technically, an option.