Kanban Swimlanes by Query: Like Assignee but a different field instead

[Eddie Hobart]

I want to be able to group stories in a Kanban board by a user picker field that's not the Assignee. The list of possible people is not small and occasionally changes so setting up individual queries like Assignee = user1 and Assignee = user2 isn't feasible.

Is there a way to replicate the swimlane sort method of Assignee but with a different user picker field instead?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Eddie Hobart 

At this time, the individual queries you are trying by each user is the only way with built-in features.  There have been several suggestions over the years to add more fields to swim lanes, and now to the newer "group by" board feature.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Eddie Hobart]

Ok thanks for confirming. That's disappointing since it's a literal copy of existing functionality, but here we are I guess :)

[Bill Sheboy]

Here are some suggestions to add other fields for the built-in quick filters feature: 

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85789
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-91263
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-8095

Yes, and...I did a bit of digging and there is no public REST API endpoint to modify quick filters, so one could not automate what you describe from a list of group members.  Here are the suggestions for that one: 

• https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/ACJIRA-2025
• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85993