Is it possible to prepopulate a kanban board with tasks?

[Avery Mickalide]

Here is a description of the problem:

There's a process that our lab goes through about once a week, let's call it "Process a dataset" where every time there are some tasks we always have to do, but there are other tasks which are specific to that specific instance of processing a dataset. We need a way to, every time we "process a dataset" keep track of all the tasks.

Proposed solution:

What I would really like to do is, every time we have to "Process a dataset", we create a  JIRA kanban board to keep track of the tasks that constitute processing that dataset. This solution only is efficient though if, every time we create a new board for a new instance of "Process a dataset", that board can come prepopulated with the tasks that always need to be done.

So my question is this: Is there a way to create a kanban board template where part of that template is that there are some tasks already populated into the board?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Avery Mickalide 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

A board is just a way to view and manipulate issues that exist in Jira Projects. Boards are based on Filters that specify which issues to show in the board.

Because the issues exist in Projects, not "in" the board", there is no native option to in the UI to automate setting the filter on a board to select particular issues, nor to create new issues when a board is created.

When you create a new board are you creating a new project? During project creation it is an option to also elect to create a Kanban or Scrum board along with the project.

It is possible to use the Automation for Jira feature to automate creation of new issues in a project. There is not an option to have that automation execute based on the creation of a board or a project, but you could manually run the automation.

You could also look at using the CSV Import to have a template of issues you want created, and import that data into newly created projects.