Why are my Epics missing from the side panel on my scrum board?

Question

My scrum board uses this filter:

project in (A,B,C,D,) AND NOT (type = Epic AND status in (Closed)) AND "Epic Link" not in (A-1, B-1,C-1) ORDER BY Rank ASC   With this filter the Epic side panel is empty.  I have about 20 other epics that should appear.

If I remove AND "Epic Link" not in (A-1, B-1,C-1) from the filter, then the epics appear.

How do I make all the other epics appear while still removing the ones i don't want

Tomas Young · Answer

Thank you.  That seems to do the same.  My epics are not appearing in the epic panel on the left side.  The open epics should appear on that panel shown on the image i attached.

Bastian Stehmann · Answer

Hi @Tomas Young ,

Thanks for the explanation.

To get the epics, it might work if you change

AND "Epic Link" not in (A-1, B-1,C-1)

To

AND ("Epic Link" not in (A-1, B-1,C-1)  or "Epic Link" is empty)

In your epics, there will be no Epic Link set and Jira selects empty fields neither if you select with in nor with not in, so you always have to select empty fields extra.

But I think this is not the solution at all, because your middle part excludes only closed epics and not all stories that are linked to them.

But I don't know a query in jira standard to achieve this.

I think, for example script runner has a jail function that will allow you to also exclude the linked stories.

Tomas Young · Answer

I want all stories from Projects A, B, C and D.  Except the stories that belong to closed epics and stories that belong to epics A-1, B-1 and C-1.  These last three epics are kinda place holders and will never be closed