How does one create a filter to filter all tasks and epics to build a plan? Jira Software is painful

Question

I just want to create a filter so I can get work done. I have a life beyond Jira. I want to collect all the tasks, stories, and epics for a project and show them in 'advance plans'. I know you can use something like #sbs if the tasks all have #abs in their headings. But where do you start! ARGH!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

A label is a free-form text that your people can add to issues to help categorise or group them.

The hits I get from several search engines when given "Jira Label" all suggest really good docs on how to use Jira, mostly atlassians docs, so I'm not sure what you are doing to "get nothing useful"

Your last point suggests that you have some question in mind around who is assigned to issues, but you do not tell us what the problem is.

Brian Mellea · Answer

What are labels?

And why when I search on 'How do you use labels?" I get nothing useful. Argh

I don't want assigned to me because I'm assigning the work to others in some cases.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Jira can be very powerful as a tracker, from simple "one liner" to "complex forms" and with processes from "open and done" through to "this has to go through 250 stages with hundreds of people having a say".

Up front, it looks a bit complicated, as it is trying to advertise flexibility, but I would recommend a healthy ignorance there - feel free to ignore all the complexity you don't need.

Picking bits of your question:

"pick a filter so I can get stuff done" - there's loads of flexibility in filters, and the easy answer here is to use "assigned to me".  Atlassian have adopted that - you'll see "assigned to me" used by default in many places.

"collect issues and shwo them in advance plans" - run a search for the issues you want in the plans, save it as a "filter", then give that to the plans.

#sbs #abs - actually, you'll find it easier and more flexible to use labels in Jira, but there's nothign wrong with using hashtags to mention stuff externally

> Where do you start?
ARGH is completely the right response.  I say "response" rather than "answer" because it's been my response to every... single... job... I've started since I moved over to the Atlassian side.  And a significant proportion of the projects I've started since I moved to Adaptavist.

The "answer" is contextual and depends very heavily on what you want to do and how you think you'd like to achieve it.