Is there a way to show total points in a column?

Question

We utilize a certain number of points a day/week to help keep us on track, but have to manually count the # of points in our "done" lane... is there a way to customize our lanes to show the total amount of points in each? If so, will this work when filtering different people?

Example: I have one card (1 point) in our "internal review" lane and two cards (2 points) in our "done" lane. Is there a way to auto-tally this in the column title area/at the bottom of the column?

Haran Kumar · Answer

@Baylor Cherry  ,

I'm still afraid whether the following might help you or not , but still here is a proposal to get near to your requirements,

The same query that I have mentioned above  , if you add the issue type as story , you will arrive at the sorted results that contains only cards (issues) only with story points.

Eg: Project= "YYY "AND status = Internal review AND issuetype = Story.

This will give you all cards (Issues) that are only of type story (story points) and in the status internal review from the project YYY.

Hence the number of issues in the search will be equal to the number of story cards in that column (status).

Hope this is somewhere near to what you were looking for.

Regards
Haran

Baylor Cherry · Answer

Hi Haran,

Thanks for your response. I am not sure if it helps though because I don't care necessarily how many total cards (issues) are in a specific lane but rather how many story points are in that lane.

Is there a way to set a Jira query to add up total story points so we don't have to do it manually?

Haran Kumar · Answer

Hi @Baylor Cherry  ,

you can use the Jira Query to sort the number of Cards ( Issues) in each status.

Project= "YYY "AND status = Internal review  will give you all cards (Issues) in the status internal review from the project YYY.

(Replace YYY with your project name )

Similarly you can change the status and the the desired  search outcomes.

To get the Count ,

You can save the search as a filter and then use the filter counts in your dashboard  to get the  count of cards (issues) in each status.  You can make it within a particular time also by using startofday() and endofday().

Hope I have understood your requirements and answered.

Regards
Haran