When having two boards in a project, how to prevent an issue shows up in both boards?

Question

Hi,

I am trying to create a project with multiple boards in it. My steps are as bellow:

* Create a project
* Create two boards within the project
* Adding backlog to all boards' workflow (black log become an extra item on the menu)
* Adding an epic issue, set its status to backlog (can we choose which board to put on here)
* Change the epic issue's status to TO DO.

Result: It shows up on both boards and sync when I change their status to "in progress" or "done"

My questions: How can I make it so an issue only belongs to one board.

John Funk · Accepted Answer

Hi Linn - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You control what cards show on what boards by the Filter attached to each board. So if you are only using one project, you need another field such as Component or Label to help differentiate which cards should show on which boards.

Then simply include that field (Component = A, or Label = A or some other custom field) in your filter.

Jack Brickey · Accepted Answer

Hi Linn, welcome to the Community. What displays in a board for a Classic project is entirely driven by filters. Specifically, the main board filter (board settings > general), sub-filter if Kanban (board settings > general) and finally quick filters. In your case here I suspect that the main filters are overlapping in some way. Please review your two filters and see if you can adjust to exclude issues you do not wish to see in each. If you need assistance please post your two board filters here and give me a bit more info on your specific goals.