Jira Projects in Board showing incorrectly

Robert G. Nadon

Hi all,

I have a strange one.  I always that that when creating a Jira board the filter specified what projects were there as per the projects in board listing ion the General configuration. 

However I have one project that specifically lists project = xyz, and yet it lists three projects in the "Projects in Board" and requires permissions to be maintain on all three as far as managing sprints and the like. 

All issues are only from project xyz.

Where is it getting these other projects from and how can I remove them from the board?

Thanks in advance for any help on this one!

Robert

PS: I have gone in and changed the shares to be only project xyz, to be everyone, etc. and that did not make a difference in the projects listed in the project in board.

Earl McCutcheon

Hi Robert,

The "Projects in Board" section is indicating the Projects that the filter is searching not just the issues returned by the filter, so you can have projects listed even though the issues returned are only for the single project, and an "OR" operator is usually the cause of this by creating a complex filter.  

What is your full filter query? I am wondering if the filter is accidentally including search criteria from the other projects via an "OR" operator.

As an EXE if you had a filter:

Project = "Project X" AND component = Example OR component = test

This is a standard logic trap where the query would include any issue in any project with component = test as the OR operator is a hard stop and anything before the OR is separate from anything after the OR as an independent search item.

If this is the case To correct the above query to restrict it to anything to only "Project X" you could use parenthesis like the following to have the Project distributed to everything within the second set after the AND:

Project = "Project X" AND (component = Example OR component = test)

Regards,
Earl