I link stories appropriately but in the backlog view, I want to be able to visually see that stories are blocked by another story based on the linked issues. I know I can flag stories in the backlog that are blocked but I guess that makes me question why even use the Linking if you can't visually see blockers in the backlog view without also adding a flag?
How do you identify a blocked story that can block other stories ? Are you suing a status, field, flag for them ?
You would like that when a story is blocked all stories linked to it with a link are identify as block as well ?
Regards
I use links for blocks or blocked by on the stories themselves. What I’m asking is, on the backlog view specifically, there is no visual indicator to show whether a story is blocked or not. From the backlog view, the only way to see that a story has dependencies is to either click the story and look at the links OR use the flag feature so it highlights the blocked stories as yellow.
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Could you use an automation to set a Flag or a value in a custom field based on Issue Link Created and remove it based on Issue link removed ? Then add this field to the card in the backlog view.
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welcome to the community!
That's a tricky one - the only option that I can think of is to use Jira Automation to automatically flag an issue whenever it is blocked according to your definition. Perhaps someone else has a smarter idea.
Alternatively, if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, I think you'd get pretty close using the app that my team and I are working on: JXL for Jira.
JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields - including your issue's issue links - much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a long list of advanced features, including support for conditional formatting. With conditional formatting, you can define conditions on your issues - e.g., whether or not there are blocking issue links - and if these conditions are fulfilled, set the color of either the entire issue row or a particular cell. This is how it looks in action:
In combination with some of JXL's other advanced features, such as issue grouping by any issue field(s), and ranking and moving issues between groups using drag and drop, you can build a view that is essentially a supercharged backlog view in just a couple of clicks.
Any questions just let me know,
Best,
Hannes
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