How can I create a custom filter in my Jira Work Management Board?

[Oguzhan Esen]

Dear community,

I need help with creating a custom filter for my Jira Work Management Board.

At the moment, Jira itself has predefined some fields that I could filter by. Also, Quick Filters are already predefined for me, so I can't customize them. However, I would like to define new quick filters for myself so that I can filter by custom fields.

How can I do this? I have not found a direct solution to this after my research both in the software itself and in other blog posts.

Thank you very much.

Best regards from Germany

[Annie_DevSamurai]

Hi @Oguzhan Esen

Welcome to the community. 

Creating custom Quick Filters in Jira Work Management (JWM) is a bit different from Jira Software. Unfortunately, JWM doesn’t currently allow you to create or customize Quick Filters directly like you can in Jira Software.

However, there’s a workaround you can try:

1. Choose your project.
2. Click on "Issues" in the navigation.
3. Use the advanced search with custom JQL to create a filter based on your custom fields.
4. Save the filter, and you can use this saved view whenever you need it.

I hope this may help.

[Oguzhan Esen]

Hi @Annie_DevSamurai ,

thank you for your answer.

Really appreciate this workaround. However, I am missing the Board-View here.

Do you have an idea, how Jira decides, which custom fields are shown in this "Filter" in the Board-view? It only shows me these 2, although I have many other custom fields in this project.

Thanks in advance.

[Annie_DevSamurai]

Hey @Oguzhan Esen

Jira decides which custom fields appear in the "Filter" on the Board view based on:

• Field Context: The custom field must be configured for your board's specific project/issue types.
• Board Settings: Some fields may be hidden based on the board’s filter or configuration settings.

Here's my suggestion I hope may help:

1. Check Field Context: Go to Jira Administration > Issues > Custom Fields > Find the custom field you want to check > Modify the context if needed.
2. Review Board Settings: Check the board settings to see if any configurations hide fields.

[Muhammad Moazzam Hassan]

Hi,

Go to the board and filter the issues by using the given options then you can view the save filter option and save the filter.

PFA 

[Oguzhan Esen]

Hi Muhammad, 

thanks for your answer. 

With your method, I can only create custom filters based on the aspects, Jira shows me. The challenge is, that Jira does not show me the custom fields I need for my filter.

It only shows me these 2: 

How can I add other custom fields here?

[Muhammad Moazzam Hassan]

Yes,

You are right there is no other custom field available. Looks ridiculous. 

[Oguzhan Esen]

Did you experience the same problem? That's really annoying that I cannot add other custom fields..