Grouping tasks into Epics in Agility Board

[[ALIAS] Matthew Poplawski]

I cannot find a way to group tasks into Epics using Agility. It is clearly documented for Scrum and Kanban boards, but doesn't appear in documentation for agility. Is this feature missing?

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Matthew,

Are you trying to group the tasks per Epic in the backlog view or in the Active Sprint/board view?

There are two features that may help you to achieve the functionality you are looking for.

In the Active Sprint/board:

You can configure your swimlanes to be grouped by Epic. You just need to navigate to your board > click in the three dots icon (...) > Board Settings > Swimlanes

For Backlog view:

You can add the parameter order by "Epic Link" to your filter query.

[[ALIAS] Matthew Poplawski]

I'm looking at the Board view (I've turned off the Sprint feature on this board, but enabled the Backlog feature). The only options in the three dots is "Manage Rule".

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Matthew,

The three dots menu I'm talking about is the one in the top-right corner of the screen:

 

Is this the same menu you are referring to? Can you please provide us a screenshot of your board?

[[ALIAS] Matthew Poplawski]

Hi,

Here is the image showing the three dots menu options.

Thanks

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Matthew,

It seems that you created your project with the Agility template. This template was developed for the customers which do not need any kind of customizations, providing only the simple view of project boards.

If you want to perform more customizations on JIRA as the ones I mentioned before, you will need to start a new project using a Scrum or Kanban template.

[[ALIAS] Matthew Poplawski]

Patterson,

What do you mean by "customization"? I just want to use Epics.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Matthew,

Per your description, I've understood that you were trying to group issues per Epics on the board, which can be achieved by customizing the swimlanes. That's why I mentioned the limitation of Agility projects.

Anyway, Agility projects are also restricted in functionality when talking about issue types and Epics are not available on agility projects too. The issue types available for Agility projects are Story, Task and bug.

I just would like to make it clear that this limitation is intended for Agility projects and all these features are available if you use a Scrum or Kanban Template of JIRA sofware. 

[[ALIAS] Matthew Poplawski]

My initial question stated that I'm using Agility boards. What a waste of time...