Why can't I select "Story Points" in most of the dashboard widgets for a next gen project?

Brett Swift

I see custom labels that I can sort by.   For instance we have a custom label called "Grooming Status" and I can show that in a pie chart, issue stats chart etc. 

However, I can NOT have it show me a total of story points for a filter I have set up. 

I really would like a version burn down chart but I've seen issues created on that. 

It would suffice to just see a single digit with the number of points remaining in a custom filter.. 

 

For context, the custom filter aggregates multiple versions.   We use the versions as releasable entities.  Our one board contains multiple products on it, separated by Epics.  This is probably the wrong way to use Jira nexg-gen projects, but it's what we have found works.... until we want to have a multi-version burn down. 

 

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Brett Swift 

Take this feedback with the context that I'm just another user of JIRA and I don't use Next Gen projects.

I would guess that you cannot choose Story Points as a grouping option in dashboard gadgets because it is not a selection list type of field, like Labels or Status. Story Points is simply a number input field with an "infinite" number of possible values. I'm guessing that grouping can't be done except on fields that are selection lists with a set of known possible values.