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JQL to Filter out Kanban Backlog Issues

Todd Heath_h9yp20

I am trying to create a filter that does not include items in the Kanban backlog. These are all in the To Do status, by default, which is the first column on my Board. I do not want these to appear in the filter results, but cannot find anything other than filtering by status, and not by those items that appear on the Board,.

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Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_

Hi @Todd Heath ,

Can you please try below JQL query.

project = Test AND status not in ("To Do")

Thanks,

Avinash

Todd Heath_h9yp20

Unfortunately this will also filter anything in that status, including the items on the Board. I need to see items that are in the To Do status, on the Board, but not see anything in the Backlog, which has the same status.

Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_

Hi @Todd Heath ,

It depends on your Kanban board filter. Basically you need to write NOT for your board filter. It will be easy if you give us you board filter query.

Thanks,

Avinash

Jack Brickey

you may have a To Do column on the Kanban board but what status is mapped to it? It will be different that the status that is in the Backlog section of your Backlog board.

As Avinash suggested share your filter and more info about your boards status-column mapping.

Jeremy Norris_55stcy

To whom it may concern:

Kanban boards are functionally a filter, so you *can* get everything not in the backlog.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Questions/JQL-to-list-all-issues-in-specific-quot-kanban-board-quot-or/qaq-p/1247706#M395893

Todd Heath_h9yp20

That is unfortunately not the case. The link you provides shows JQL that will display issues from a specific board, or from multiple board. Unfortunately there is no JQL that will all you to filter out only those issues from one board that are in the backlog. The Backlog and Board will both be in a single status (To Do for example) and there is no way to distinguish cards in a particular status that are on the Board or the in the Backlog. That functionality is not available at this time.

Gertjan Fober_1dwbqe

is this working in any case? I would love to be able to filter out tasks on the backlog.

Catalin Huzum

*Edit - Answer was incorrect.

Felix Khoja

Not sure if this solves every use case and it's not perfect but this kind of achieves what I wanted to do.

I am using the team-managed (next-gen) Jira with Kanban and backlog enabled. In the Board settings I click the Manage workflow button and add a new To-do status labeled "Backlog" and change the workflow so an issue transitions to this status on creation.

This adds a new status to the Unassigned statuses section of the Board settings. This column is automatically hidden from the backlog so I placed the status in the To Do column of my board as the second status assigned to this column after "To Do" status. This lets my JQL filter search for statuses not including the "Backlog" status effectively filtering out the issues in my backlog.

The only annoying part of this is when I want to start working on an issue - I need manually move the issue from the backlog to the board and also remember to change its label to "To Do". Wish there was a way to automate moving an issue from the backlog to the board when its status changes.

Michael Fearer

I believe I've figured it out by looking at the export file. Try to add this to your JQL: "Status != Backlog"

Gertjan Fober_1dwbqe

That does not seem to work, shame it is taking so long to implement this at Atlassian.

Cory Robertson

The way I was able to do this was by setting Sprint = null... which will correct to sprint = EMPTY, which was able to successfully separate the tickets I have assigned to sprints, and those that I have sitting in my backlog. If you need to show only items that are assigned to sprints, and IGNORE the items that are in the backlog, then the query would be sprint != EMPTY..

You can set these queries in the quick filters section

Gabriel Radic_tu4hyu

I have no answer, just want to express my annoyance that this particular feature is still not there after three years.

PS: Sorry for the spam, watchers.

Buffy Nichols

I have solved this in a lateral way by creating a filter for the board "Parent Status" != Backlog which presumably I could also put into the board filter as AND "Parent Status" != Backlog but haven't tried that yet because the backlog I'm working with is currently a mess and the chaos in the board minus the filter is useful to me in having conversations with people about why they need to change their ways.

Todd Heath_h9yp20

This doesn't resolve either. It required using sprints, and doesn't filter if you are using Kanban or have not turned on sprints. Unfortunately, Atlassian has yet to provide a solution.

Todd Heath_h9yp20

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as a board filter. The parent status is either the status of the parent epic or task card. It doesn't pick up issues that are in the backlog, when the backlog feature is turned on. We are still waiting on Atlassian to implement what seems to be simple functionality.

Tony Goyarzu_lz4mbu

hey @Todd Heath

I was having the same issue ... I have posted a possible workaround in

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AUTO-605?focusedId=3352946&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-3352946

See if that helps :fingers_crossed:

Martin Mlostek

Hey @Todd Heath have you been able to solve your problem? Having the same situation here and i am pretty puzzled

Jenny Nichols

In order to filter out the statuses of the items you don't want to see, you need to open "Configure Board" to see which statuses are set to which swim lanes. I was able to filter out my "To Do" column by excluding the status I have set for that swim lane (Ready for Development), plus the two statuses for my backlog (Open, Submitted).

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