Your plan contains too many spaces

[Marc Solomon]

I am running into this error when trying to use Plans which present all the work a central team have in multiple project spaces.

Your plan contains too many spaces

Plans limits the number of spaces you can include in a plan.

What options do I have to get around this issue?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Marc Solomon 

What have you specified as Sources for your plan? Are you specifying Spaces, Filters, or Boards?

Plans are limited to getting data from no more than 100 Spaces per this documentation:

Limits on plan sizes 

Are you intentionally trying to gather data from more than 100 Spaces? If so, I don't believe there is a native work around. You would have to use multiple Plans or look for a third party app that does not have that limitation.

If you are not intending to pull data from so many Spaces, and are using Filters or Boards for your Sources, then you may need to refine the Filters and Board filters to be more explicit in identifying source Spaces in their queries.

[Marc Solomon]

Hi @Trudy Claspill , thanks for the clarification.

Yes, I am specifying Teams as the source, and yes — intentionally working across more than 100 spaces. We have 110 Jira projects that a central team of 30 people work across from time to time. The goal was to use Plan view to give the team leads visibility of work happening across the whole business in one place.

In that context, a 100-space limit does feel like an arbitrary constraint for exactly the kind of cross-functional oversight Plans seems designed to support. I'll look at splitting into multiple Plans as a workaround, though that somewhat defeats the purpose.

Also can I see Epics on the plan view or am I missing something else?

Regards

Marc

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Marc Solomon 

You should be able to see all work item types that are included in the results of the Sources of your plan. It is possible to apply filters to your view of the Plan which could restrict which work item types you see.

Are you unable to see the Epics after reducing your plan to 100 or fewer spaces?

[Marc Solomon]

Yup penny dropped, and a filter challenge. Not that I know how to solve it.

I want all the items connected to a list of teams, and the EPIC which isnt assigned to the team. NOt sure how I JQL that.

[Trudy Claspill]

Can you share with us the JQL you are using?

Do you have access to any JQL extending apps like ScriptRunner Enhanced Search from Adaptavist, or other similar apps?

Natively Jira doesn't provide a method to get all the Epics for a set of issues returned by a filter. All of the native search options require you to provide a single, explicit child issue key.

Without a third party app you would need to add a Team to the Epics to get them included in the results.