Can I join boards together?

Question

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you are all doing well.

Please would you let me know if I can join or link boards together?

I have various boards but would like to "link" those boards into one main board to help me manage a team of users.

I have looked on Jira but to no avail.  Is anyone able to help me?

Thank you so much in advance for all your help - I am crossing everything at my end in the hope that I will be lucky.

Have a super afternoon and please do stay safe and well.

Thank you! 🙏

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Welcome to the community!

The short answer is "no".  There's nothing that would look like "join" or "merge" boards, because that is not what boards are for.

But, there's nothing to stop you creating overview boards.  Boards are not containers for issues, they are a view of a selection.  If you want to see the issues that boards A, B and C are all showing in a bigger board D, then you can set up board D to include all the issues selected for A, B and C.

A typical default for a board is a simple "Project =".  So in my A/B/C/D example, you might have

* Board A: Project = A
* Board B: Project = B
* Board C: Project = C

And hence do:

* Board D:  Project in (A, B, C)

Jack Brickey · Answer

Yes you can do this. First, to be clear, you don’t “link” boards but you can create A board that represents the contact of two or more other boards. Basically a board is simply a visual representation of a query. So if you want to have a single board that covers the contact of the two other boards and you simply need to create a filter that defines that content. Below is an example.

board 1 - project = abc

board 2 - project = def

Combined board - project in (abc, def)

So you simply create a JQL filter that represents your current two boards and create a board using that filter. If you need assistance with your JQL please provide your current two board filters and I can assist with that. Finally, you may need to consider how your columns will be laid out if the two boards are different in that regard.

NOTE: The above is centered around CMP projects. If you are using TMP things are a bit different.