Printing Backlog - without issues and filters tab

Oliver Scarr

Im trying to print off my backlog - I see people have asked this question before. However, the answer doesn't solve my problem. They suggest using the issues and filter tab. My project doesn't have that tab therefor I cannot get to that screen to then click the print option. Any ideas?

Andy Heinzer

Hi Oliver,

I see you are wanting to print off some record of the issues in your backlog.   It appears you're using Jira Cloud, please correct me if I'm mistaken.

In Jira Cloud Software projects, there are currently two types of such Scrum projects that behave differently, so I'd like to clarify which one we are talking about here.   If you were using a Classic Scrum project type, your backlog would look like this:

and in turn you could just select the first card in the backlog, hold the shift key, then select the last card.  From there you can right click to print selected cards on that kind of board.

However if you're using a next-gen project, you won't have this option.  Your backlog will look like this instead:

If that is the case, then I would recommend going to the issue navigator in Jira.  In Cloud you can do this by going to the search/magnifying glass icon, and choose Advance search for issues.  It will take you to a page with a URL such as example.atlassian.net/issues/

From here you can use some advanced JQL searching to look for these issues in that backlog with a query such as:

project=NEX and status='to do' order by rank asc

where NEX is the project key in question.  You could also use the project's full name if you don't know the key.   From there in the top right corner there is a link to export -> print list that you could use to print these.

I hope this helps.

Andy