Swimlanes for team-managed projects

Question

I actually have a two-part question, but first want to mention that we're using team-managed projects. I've read a bunch of the articles about company-managed vs team-managed projects, and I think I have a decent feel for the differences. And, I suspect I know the answer to each of these questions, but thought I'd ask anyway:

* I can see the "Group By" drop-down at the upper-right above the Kanban board rows/columns, but the only  options are: Assignee, Subtasks, None. Are the other options so that I could have something like "Product Feature A", "Product Feature B", etc. for rows/swim lanes?
* Similarly, we currently have two team-managed project Kanban boards. Is there a way to create a "composite board" where each project is a swim lane so we can see all issues across both projects?

Thanks.

John Tucci · Answer

Trudy:

Sincere "Thanks" for the detailed and informative response. I'm encouraged that there is an existing change request for custom swim lanes. I'm hoping there have been enough requests to move Atlassian to implement.

Regards.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

For your first question the answer is no. What is available in the Group By drop down is all that is currently available for swim lanes for Team Managed projects. There is a change request to support creation of custom swim lane options:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17580

For your second question, you can create a saved filter that encompasses the two projects and create a board from that saved filter, but that board will behave like a board for a Company Managed project.

One of the differences is that Team Managed projects use the Parent field to track an issue's parent Epic and also to track a sub-task's parent issue. In boards that are created from saved filters, a value in the Parent field results in the issue grouping that you typically see only for sub-tasks under issues. Because the Parent field is used for instead of Epic Link in Team Managed projects, the result is that you would see child stories under an Epic grouped like sub-tasks under an issue. And if you click on in the Epic pane on an Epic from the Team Managed project, the issue list will not show you the child issues of that Epic because it is trying to find them based on the Epic Link field, which is blank in child issues in a Team Managed project.

So, while it is possible to do what you want using a saved filter and a manually created board, that board will not look nor behave the same as the boards you see for your Team Managed projects.