How to Add Existing Issue to Kanban Board?

John Weiss_fkxqaf

I need to add various arbitrary existing issues to my Kanban board. 

My understanding is that issues aren't manually added to boards. Rather, they automatically appear according to filter, correct?

In my board configure screen, i see "Filter". Not sure how to use this. 

Can i apply a label or other property to an issue to make it appear on a board?

thx

Petter Gonçalves

Hello,

For anyone who gets on this thread, there are two types of kanban boards on Jira: Company-managed and Team-managed. You can identify its type by navigating to the board and checking its description at the bottom of the left menu:

A Team-managed board will always display the issues from the project it was created and can not be customized, however, company-managed boards are based on a JQL filter which can be customized to return any issues of your site.

You can follow the steps below to properly edit the filter of a Company-managed Kanban board:

1. Navigate to the board > Click in the three dots menu (...) > Board settings
   
   
2. On the General tab, click Edit filter query and edit the filter to return the issues you need

You can refer to the documentation below to know the correct JQL syntax to edit the board filter and return the issues you need:

Use advanced search with Jira Query Language (JQL) 

For more details about Kanban boards and how to create a company-managed kanban board for your issues, check the documentation below:

Kanban Boards 

Thanks!