Next Gen Projects - Board with multiple projects?

[Jeff Lovington]

Agree. Further, historic rate of development indicates it'll be many years until next-gen is usable for bigger/more complex teams.

[Nick Changelo]

I wanted to use the Roadmapping tool so that we can get out of 3rd party software for it. 

On a quick look, there are just too many blockers moving into the NextGen projects at this point. 

[Jeff Lovington]

Us too - which tools are you looking at? kind of dreading a full new feature analysis. Hard to find out all the missing stuff in each of the tools before migrating/using them

[Abir Stolov]

On march 2020 it was declared to be released I believe in the following few months.

[elie]

Hi guys, I hope everyone is safe around here

is there any news on this please? i m using next-gen projects and i simply want to create a board with multiple projects.

Let us know please. Thanks

[Jeff Lovington]

another critical feature not done within 18 months and counting...

[Ian Bussières]

I'm somewhat reassured by "Priority: Highest".

[Ryan Pluckrose]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17444?_ga=2.159594813.1615490238.1580300507-1588989260.1580144039


The feature is in Open ready to be worked on but not sure when they will start on it

[Deleted user]

@Drew Angell - I looked at the screen shots I sent you and I don't see it. Or am I misunderstanding?

If it is there, it may have been added as a plugin by someone before I started working here, not sure. But I have just created a new project again, see step by step, see images. Please let me know if you can see anywhere that I have gone wrong or should add something.

Thanks

Step 1: click on create project button under Projects in the sidebar

Step 2: select project type - select classic

Step 3: Select template - selected Kanban

Step 4: Enter Project Name - Nikki Test Filter

Project is now created

Step 5: Select Board Settings - Columns. No statuses in unmapped

Step 6:  copy the all dev work filter (created as an example) which is already returning issues as expected

Step 7: paste the filter into the board settings filter tab

Step 8:  go back to board - board is still empty

Step 9: create a test story just to test board is working as expected otherwise, and it does

[Drew Angell]

@[deleted] Classic projects don't have the new "roadmap" feature, though, unless it's been added there and I didn't know it..??

[Deleted user]

@Drew Angell - I am inside a classic project. I just created a new classic project to double check and I still have all the extra stuff in the sidebar. Thank you for your help so far.

[Drew Angell]

@[deleted] Somehow it seems that you're still inside a Next Gen project board.  

See on my board I don't have all the stuff you do in the sidebar menu:  https://snipboard.io/FiPI73.jpg

[Deleted user]

Thank you for your reply @Drew Angell 

I have added all the available statuses in the "add status" dropdown on the column management section of the settings screen snipboard.io/uQIvNX.jpg.

Here you can see the search function working as well as the statuses of those stories (which have been mapped to my columns) snipboard.io/nsNv41.jpg

But still, when looking at my board, the only tickets that are displaying are the test tickets I created inside the board snipboard.io/oA5vU0.jpg

Do you see anything wrong with what I have done here?

Thank you

[Drew Angell]

It sounds like you're doing it correctly, but maybe you forgot to adjust the columns in the board settings..??

For example, when I go to Settings -> Columns, this is what I see:  https://snipboard.io/bxsZ4f.jpg

All of my Next Gen projects were under "Unmapped Statuses" and I had to move them over to the correct column for every single project.

It's a bit annoying because I use the same structure for all my Next Gen projects (ie. Open, In Progress, QA, DevOps, Done) but I have to set that up in every Next Gen project separately.

Then, all of those separate statuses show up in here with the same name, but you can't tell which project they belong to.  So then I end up with a bunch of the same thing under each column, and I have no idea what's what.  

Every time I create a new next gen project, I have to remember to configure the workflow for that project, and then come back to my Big Board column settings and drag the statuses for that new project into the Board column it belongs to.

If you don't add the status from every project to your board columns, they won't show up on the board.

[Deleted user]

@Drew Angell I tried to follow your instructions but was unsuccessful. How did you "create a new Scrum Board based on this filter"

I was able to create a filter and then add it to my Quick filters section under Board Settings (classic project, Kanban template) but it returns nothing once back on my board.  (the filter itself returned the issues as expected whilst on the search screen)

The classic Scrum board does the same.

If I use any of the next gen projects, I can't even access the board settings. The only option I have is to add board rules. 

Are you able to give me any more information on how to "create a new Scrum Board based on this filter" please?

Thank you

[Lucy Dilts]

Next-Gen is useless without this feature.

[Rolf Rosenbaum]

I tried also your approach with a separate scrum board over all projects. Currently I'm facing up a problem with the subtasks. Normally if a task contains subtasks, it is shown a separate group in the board (if configured of course).

Did you have the same problem and a solution?

[Drew Angell]

This is not ideal, but for the time being I have created a separate project called Roadmap.  On this project I'm using the Roadmap to build out my Epics on the timeline so I can see everything together on a single Roadmap.  

From here I can bulk move the Epics into their individual projects when I'm ready to start building out Sprints.  

It helps, but it is frustrating I can't easily see a single Roadmap that includes all projects.

[nish]

mee too

[Deleted user]

What you are describing works, however I believe the original poster was wanting to use the roadmap feature and I don't believe what you are describing will help them with that.

The reason your columns have duplicate statuses is because this allows you to map the same status in different projects to different columns in your new board.  I've never needed to do this but I can imagine a scenario where it might be quite useful.