View tasks from all projects in one place

[Varvara K_]

I want to be able to view tasks from all projects, for example, based on filters. But only in the board view can I see the display by my categories. By categories, I mean the category field.

[Marc -Devoteam-]

Hi @Varvara K_ 

Make the board filer so all issues will be fetched.

Columns on the board, hold workflow status(es), so based on the status of the issue the appear in a column.

Create quick filters to filter on the board, or based your swim lanes on the board by project.

Both options require to set JQL options.

Quick Filter: configure-quick-filters 
Swim Lane; configure-swimlanes 

[Varvara K_]

@Marc -Devoteam- but i want board with category columns, not status

[Marc -Devoteam-]

Hi @Varvara K_ 

This is not possible.

A board is based on a filter, the columns can be created at random, but they can only contain one or more workflow statuses per column.

What do you mean by categorie, status category?

You can create quick filter or swim lanes based by status category.

See the links I provided.

Or create a board column per category and add the related workflow status to the category column, but you can only use a status once.

[Rik de Valk _Brainboss_]

Hi @Varvara K_ , 

Categories are - just like Components - bound to a single Space. 

Even if you name the Categories exactly the same, Jira will handle these as different Categories. So you cannot aggregate Work Items per Category across Spaces. 

In the below example, you see that Fruit is displayed twice (once for each Space that contains a Fruit category). 

Also, I don't think it is possible to create multiple Boards inside a Business Space (only in Software Spaces). 

So I think you hit a limitation of what you can do with Categories and Business Spaces. 

But maybe someone has found a work-around for this? 

Have a a nice day, Rik 

[Varvara K_]

@Rik de Valk _Brainboss_ Well, I assumed there might be plugins that could customize the display of columns using a JQL filter. Because if I have categories in my projects with the same name, the JQL query would display tasks from all projects that have categories with the same name.

[Rik de Valk _Brainboss_]

Sure in a Table format (such as in the Work Item Search, or in a Filter Results dashboard gadget) you can see the Categories as text just fine. Also across multiple Spaces. Below an example of a Work Item Search where I search across 2 projects, and I have included the column 'Category' so that it shows that data in the table: 

The limitation is, that whenever you will ask Jira to group by Category, it will show the categories as separate categories even if they have the same name.