Active sprints view - Group by Sprint

Question

Hello all,

New to Jira. I have a "Classic software project" with a Board. I selected scrum-style when making the project. We do not use Epics.

My goal is that on the left when I click Active Sprints (we are using parallel sprints) I'd like to see all sprints (which do currently show), but display the issues grouped by sprint. Is there a way to do this? (eg. I'd like to see the issues under their appropriate status columns, but grouped by sprints)

I've tried going to Board settings > Swimlanes > Group by ... but I don't see Sprints. Selecting "Epics" here works correctly if we were to use Epics, but we don't use epics. (I also thought of auto assigning Epics based on the Sprint name, but not sure if that's even possible.) Is there some JQL query I could write that would accomplish this?

Thanks

Andy Heinzer · Accepted Answer

Hi Parth,

If I understand your request here, you're using Jira Software Cloud in a Classic board, and you want to be able to see all the sprints in the active view, but have these grouped on the board.

While there is a drop down next to the quick filters that will let you see all the issues of a single sprint, selecting all sprints option doesn't provide you two or more sections to group these issues in the way I think you want to see them.

In that case, certainly swimlanes would provide you a way to see the issues in a sprint in this kind of grouping.  First you'd have to sort the swimlanes by JQL query, and then you would have to create a JQL query like so:

sprint="Name of my 1st sprint"

sprint="Name of my 2nd sprint"

If you only have only two active sprints for this board, then this will work.  But I could see this being really tedious to setup for lots of sprints and even more tedious to maintain too.  Because each time the sprint ends or a new one begins, you'd need to update the JQL queries in that swimlanes settings to be able to continue to group the issues in this manner.

But I hope that these steps can help to provide you what you are looking for here.

Andy