Story from a Previous Sprint Moved to the Backlog Not Showing Up

Daniel J. Pinter

I'm working on a new board and am having an issue with one story. The story was worked on in a previous sprint, then moved to the backlog. My board query includes this;

(sprint is EMPTY OR sprint in futureSprints()) and statusCategory != Done

Which, of course, filters out that story. Is there a field or flag that Jira uses to determine if an item should show up in the boards backlog grid that I an use?

Trudy P Claspill

Are you working with a scrum board or a kanban board?

If you are working with a Scrum board you don't need any of those criteria. Those criteria are built in to the functionality of a Scrum board Backlog display. Though that filter would also prevent the issues that are Active sprints from displaying also.

Jira has built in functionality to determine what should appear in the backlog with regard to Sprint values and Status values (for a Scrum board), and just Status values (for a Kanban board). You don't have to explicitly include those in your filter unless you are trying to do something special.

Can you explain the entire use case you are trying to implement so we can provide better advice?