How to create a kanban board that shows all tickets assigned to me across multiple spaces ?

[Tejas Chandrashekar]

So, at my company, we have multiple spaces created for each product. I work across multiple products and hence my tickets are spread across multiple spaces. Currently, I run a custom JQL that retrieves all my tickets and shows it as a list. But I want to view my tickets in a kanban board style as it will be much easier for me to view my tickets grouped based on their workflow status. 

How can I do this ?

[Mariia_Domska_SaaSJet · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Tejas Chandrashekar 👋

I'm Mariia from SaaSJet, nice to meet you.

That’s a really good question — and you’re definitely not the only one facing it. Jira’s native boards are limited to showing issues from one project or one filter, depending on how they’re created. So while your JQL can pull issues from multiple projects, you can’t use that directly in a board inside multiple spaces the way you can in a single project.

Here are a few options:

You can create a company-managed board in Jira Software and base it on your custom JQL filter. Go to Boards → View all boards → Create board → Kanban board → From an existing Saved Filter. Choose your JQL filter (e.g., assignee = currentUser() AND project in (PROD1, PROD2, PROD3)). That will show all your tickets across those projects in one Kanban view.

You can also try a Marketplace app for cross-project visualization. If you want something more flexible — like grouping, filtering, or visual customization — you might want to try No-Code Apps Creator for Jira by my team. It’s an AI-powered app that lets you build your own custom dashboards and boards without coding. You can simply describe what you need in the prompt. Then AI generates a board for you, pulling data directly from all your Jira projects.

🚀 Using No-Code Apps Creator is an excellent option if you work across many products and want one dynamic, visual board for your work.

[Jason U · Accepted solution]

Hi @tejas,

That’s a great question — Jira doesn’t natively support a Kanban-style view across multiple projects within a single board, but there are a few effective workarounds you can try:

1. 🧩 Dashboard with Filters
   You can build a Jira Dashboard that aggregates issues from multiple projects using a JQL filter (like assignee = currentUser()) and then add gadgets such as:

   • Filter Results (for list view)

   • Two-Dimensional Filter Statistics (to see progress by status or project)

   • Created vs Resolved Chart (for trends)

2. 🧠 Clone Board (Multi-project Kanban)
   If you have admin permissions, you can clone an existing Kanban board and update its JQL filter to include multiple projects, e.g.:

   project in (PROJ1, PROJ2, PROJ3) AND assignee = currentUser()

   This lets you view all your issues grouped by workflow status on one Kanban board — similar to what you’re looking for.

[Tejas Chandrashekar · Accepted solution]

@Jason U @Mariia_Domska_SaaSJet Thankyou for sharing some helpful info. Based on that, I did some deep dive into the docs and eventually figured out how I can achieve what I desired.

[Tejas Chandrashekar]

Sharing the steps that I followed, incase anyone comes across this issue in the future :

1. Retrieve Tickets: Use the comprehensive JQL to gather all relevant tickets.
2. Create Board: In Jira, go to "Boards" > "Create board" > "Create a Kanban board".
3. Apply Filter: Use your JQL as the board’s filter.

I further customized my board based on my needs by going into the "Configure Board" in the three dots present on the top right of the board.

[Mariia_Domska_SaaSJet]

Thank you, @Tejas Chandrashekar 🙌
Thanks for sharing your solution, and also thanks for your request — it helped highlight a real use case that many Jira users have. Questions like yours also help us, as vendors, better understand what users truly need from Jira and how we can build better solutions. 💙

[Piotr Bojko]

Hi, I have created an app Keep Up for Jira  app for a similar problem - I was overload by number of projects/spaces I participated and tons of issues I was tracking.

Maybe my app would help you.

Regards