How to remove/ hide closed issues from backlog on agility board?

[Katie O'Dowd]

One of my teams is using the agility board in beta and we can't figure out how to remove "done" items from the backlog. Is there a way to archive or hide?

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

Katie, 

I'm not sure if this is possible yet. According to this page the agility functionality is still in beta. This is a quote from the article. 

"We've yet to build in the more advanced customization features, such as issue types and workflow management, that have been popular amongst our customers. In order to make things like setting up board and project settings easy, we've taken the approach of rebuilding the new boards starting with the basic features – such as being able to create a column and a card directly on the board. This approach enables us to make bigger advancements in usability as opposed to making top down tweaks to the older experience. This is why you're seeing the basics at this stage of our development program, but you'll be glad to hear that there is more coming."

[John Price]

We have the same question.  We've just recommended an agility project to a UX team who wants simple task tracking for tech debt items and the first thing they asked was "how do we clean up the done column"?

This team doesn't need accurate metrics so the workaround for us is going to be:

* Turn sprints and backlog on

* Create a June 2018 sprint

* just move stuff in that they want to work on into the sprint whenever

* Create a July 2018 sprint

* Close out June 2018 and move undone items over.