How to make the Kanban board sorted by the assignee?

[Bogdan Savchenko]

Can anybody think how I can customize default Kanban columns so each of them corresponds to the particular assignee and displays all of the tasks assigned to him? Thank you.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Kanban columns are representative of status.  The only way you can make a column look like it is by assignee is by having a workflow that has status representing each possible assignee (which would no longer represent a process, making the issue tracking pretty useless)

You can slice up a board by rows though, look to the "swimlane" configuration and setting that to "assignee" - each assignee will then have a swimlane to themselves with only their issues in the lane.

Or maybe look to something like Comala Canvas for grid views of your issues (not boards)

[Bogdan Savchenko]

Swimlane is OK to me. But maybe you know how to display only particular assignees rather than all of them? For instance, I'd like 5 guys to have a swimlane to themselves and the rest of the guys to be grouped under the kind of "Other" swimlane? Thank you.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Assignee is a coded swimlane setting, like Story, Epic and Project, but you can also use "Queries" to define swimlanes.  If you change from Assignee to Queries, you'll be presented with a list of name/query/description lines that you can add as many as you'd like to.

So, you could easily do swimlanes like:

1. Alice's lane:  assignee = Alice
2. The group's lane:  assignee in (Alice, Bob, Charlie)

I've deliberately included Alice in the second query to show something people often misunderstand about swimlanes.

Those two lines will give you three lanes containing:

1. All of Alice's assigned issues
2. All of Bob and Charlie's assigned issues
3. All the other issues that are unassigned or assigned to people other than Alice, Bob and Charlie

The thing people often misunderstand is that a card can (rightly) only appear on a board once.  The swimlane queries are executed top to bottoms, so if a card appears in swimlane 1, even if it would be selected by the query in swimlane 2, it won't be in lane 2.  (Or "others" either)

[Bogdan Savchenko]

Thank you for the explanations and examples! It was super helpful :)

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Bogdan Savchenko welcome to the Atlassian community forum.

To proceed with the settings, you must be a "Board admin" or "project admin".

In the Kanban board, you can sort the column as per the assignee by configuring the swimlanes.

Path: Jira login>> Select the project >> On top right side click ... and choose board settings>> Choose Swimlanes tab.

Here is the documentation about the configuration that will help you:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-swimlanes/

Stay safe and stay healthy

[Bogdan Savchenko]

Great. Thank you! 

May I also wonder if there a way to display only particular assignees? 

[Anam Ejaz]

What if we do not want to show any other assignee other than a specific assignee on the Kanban board, With the swimlanes query option still other issues will be displayed. @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- @Bogdan Savchenko 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Either adjust the board filter so that it only includes the assignees you want to see, or add quick-filters for the assignee - these toggle displays of selected issues on and off, so you could define one that says "assignee = person" or "assignee = currentUser()", or even "assignee not in (A, B, C)"