Group by Story on next gen board doesn't work with linked issues

Stuart_Fuller

I have a next gen Scrum board that I'm trying to configure to group by Story. From the looks of it, grouping by Story doesn't work if the story doesn't have any sub tasks. However, my stories are made up of linked issues. The reason for this is that we have several issues that span multiple stories (components need updating in common components, etc).

So, my story has 8 linked issues, all with a 'requires' operator. I've moved the story into this Sprint, however when I look at the Board, there is no way for me to group by story and see the linked issues underneath it. 

 

Is what I'm trying to achieve possible?

 

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Stuart,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

I understand that you would like to group linked issues underneath other stories in Next-gen boards. Is it correct?

I can confirm that the "Group by Stories" in Next-gen boards are created to be applicable only for sub-tasks and, Unfortunately, JIRA Next-gen doesn't have a "group by function" for linked issues. As we think it would be a useful feature in next-gen projects, we created the following feature request to get it implemented:

- As a Jira Software user, I want to be able to configure swimlanes on next-gen boards 

Feel free to vote and watch the suggestion to increase its priority and also receive notifications about any updates.

For now, you can choose one of the two options below to achieve your need:

1 - Change the linked stories to sub-tasks of the main story and use the "group by Stories" functionality

2  - Migrate your issues to a classic project, navigate to the board > Board settings > Swimlanes > Select the swimlanes to be based on a query and configure the following one:

issueLinkType in ("requires")

This will group your issues underneath the issue they are linked to.

Let me know if this information helps.