How to See that Stories are Blocked in Backlog View without Using Flags

Kristin Mills
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December 20, 2024

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? 

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Florian Bonniec
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December 20, 2024

Hi @Kristin Mills 

 

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 ?

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Kristin Mills
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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.  

Florian Bonniec
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December 24, 2024

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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Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira
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December 23, 2024

Hi @Kristin Mills

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:

issue-links-is-blocked-by.gif

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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