a kanban board for a specific epic?

[Alex Gerulaitis]

(Team-based project, free tier.)

Goal: display a kanban board for a specific Epic. I.e. show all child work items as cards on a board in their "swim lanes" (aka states like "to do" or "completed") (if I am using the right terminology).

• Spaces have tabs in their views (pages), one of the tabs is "Board" - exactly what I am looking for - except it's for the entire space, not a selected "Epic".
• There does not appear to be a filter option that would allow to only show work items related to a specific epic, unless I am missing something. (The "Epic" button in the "Filter" drop-down just restricts the results to "epics".)
• ... and it does not look like JQL is working. If I just type something like `parent = <spaceID>-<number>` in the search box: no results.

So how do I filter a board to only show a specific epic and all of its child (or "related") work items? (Or if that's not easy, how do I create the needed view some other way?)

(This should be simple?)

[John Funk]

Hi Alex,

Team-managed spaces are very limited as far as customization and you can't do much with the board. Many people suggest avoiding those types of projects altogether (I am one of those :-)

That being said, you can create a second board and use a board filter that limits the work items show on the board to a specific Epic. There are a few limitations, but all of that is explained in this article. 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Creating-a-Second-Agile-Board-for-Team-Managed-or-JIra-Work/ba-p/2115018

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Alex Gerulaitis 

You mentioned that it is a Team-managed project, but that is just one aspect of the project type. The other is whether it is a Business, Software, or Service space. Click the ... button next to the space name and look at the last two lines in the pop-up.

The Space type will affect the filtering options.

For instance in a Software space you should see a filter option like this:

That would allow you to show in the board cards for only the items that have as their parent the Epic(s) you checkmark.

The Filter option for a Business space looks quite different.

This space type's filter doesn't support what you are trying to do.