Which field in Card Layout would sum up all story points belonging to an epic?

Question

I want to sum up the story points of all tasks which belong to an epic on the epic card. For this I went to board settings > card layout > field name, however I am struggling to understand which field in this extensive list will be able to do this for me. I also can't find a breakdown of the fields anywhere to assist me. Does anyone know which field could help me to do this, or where I could find a guide on the fields?

Andreas Haaken (APTIS) · Answer

Hi,

we have a solution for the Server Cards by Epic Sum Up (our plugin) and a field that summarizes all child values e.g. Story Points. Looks like this:

On Cloud we can "only" do this:

Its not directly been visible, but with another clik on each epic you can see the Story point summary.. 
Hope that helps..

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Liza Vul

Welcome to the community.

There is not a field in the Epics that holds the sum of the child stories' Story Points. The information is calculated dynamically for display in the Epics Pane in the Backlog screen, but is not recorded in a field.

If you want to display that information on cards in your board for Epics, you would need to create a custom field for that, add that field to your Epic issue type screens, and then use something like an Automation Rule to actually calculate the value each time the Story Points on a child issue changed. There are several posts in this community about summing up story points from child issues to their parent Epic.

Alternately it might be possible that this would be done automatically by a third party app, but I have not researched to find such an app.