Hello,
I am learning Jira, in the course I am doing, the backlog displays Epic names, but in my Jira, Backlog displays Epic summary.
Why is that?
Hello @Benjamin Blackswan
Welcome to the Atlassian community!
Atlassian is making changes in Epics so that Company Managed projects and Team Managed projects handle Epics the same way. Previously Epic Name applied only to Epics in Company Managed projects.
They announced the recent roll out of the change here under the heading "Changes to epic fields in company-managed projects". There is also a link there to an article they published 2022 about the changes they were planning.
Hi @Benjamin Blackswan ,
Epic Name: It is a short identifier for the epic. It is used as a label on issues belonging to the given epic.
Epic Summary: It is observed whenever Jira will be displaying the epic.
As you said, the Epic name should be displayed here. Can you expand an Epic so I can see the difference between the Epic name and the Summary content?
Hi I have deleted all my Epics and tried to create a new Epic with the following details.
As you can see, the epic name is Epic 1000 Name and summary is Epic 1000 Summary.
And in the backlog, Epic 1000 Summary is displayed
and the expanded version of the same Epic.
As you can see, the Epic Summary is displayed instead of Epic Name.
Try to re-establish a Company-managed project, will the Epic name be displayed in backlog?
@Benjamin Blackswan
Changes labeled ROLLING OUT are being gradually rolled out and may not be on your site just yet.
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We've made changes to epics on your board and backlog to more closely align epics across company-managed and team-managed projects.
Epics on your board and backlog will now display the epic’s Issue summary in their lozenge and on the epic panel. Additionally, the epic color on the board and backlog will now use the epic’s Issue color.
These updates will also apply to the Epic link field in the issue view. Learn more about these changes
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Hi Ollie,
My project is already a Company-managed project.
Ben.
this change makes no sense.
Why would you want to display Epic Summary instead of Epic Name?
There is so little space in the backlog view for Epic so why would you want to display the longer Epic Summary?
Hello, I'm struggling with the same issue. The backlog and sprint cards are now showing the field called "Summary" rather than the Epic Name. We use the Epic Name to organize tickets on the backlog and easily track that all of our sprint goals are met under specific Epics. The Epic Summary has a longer character limit and we use that to display the functional requirement which does not lend itself to this view.
Is there any way to fix the backlog and sprint card views so that the Epic Name shows rather than the Epic Summary?
Here's a pic of our backlog with the Epic's shown. Note the text that wraps off of the page and makes the Epic title impossible to discern from each other in this view.
This is crazy. Rational decisions are no longer being made in the product team at Atlassian. You've made the UI even more unusable. What the hell?
All you've done is to force me to put the same text in the Epic Name and the Epic Summary. If that was your intention, then why is the Epic Name still around at all?
I think everyone agrees, Ollie. The problem is that Atlassian has just decided to invalidate that entire premise. The Epic Name is no longer used as a label on issues. It no longer has a purpose. The Epic Summary will have to adopt the same length and purpose as the now-deprecated (in my opinion) Epic Name.
Can you make this a board setting so we can define what to display in our tiles (ie. the Epic Name or Epic Summary)? My Sprint board is unreadable now... Epic descriptions are too long and all of our color conventions have been changed. The team is lost visually. Bad UX change and no one in our company was aware this was happening this weekend.
Hello @Liza Weir
Welcome to the Atlassian community.
That sounds like a suggestion you should make directly to Atlassian. There are a few ways you can do that.
You can comment on their announcement/post on the topic:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Upcoming-changes-to-epic-fields-in-company-managed-projects/ba-p/1997562
You can ask your Jira Admins to raise this as a concern through a Support Case directly with Atlassian.
You can check Atlassian's public backlog to see if there is a suggestion for this already and add your vote/comments to it, or create your own suggestion:
https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa
I am not opposed to the change but it appears they didn't consider and account for all the impact of this change. If you do not enter an Epic Name, you cannot search for Epics by keyword in the Epic Link field because the field appears to search again Epic Name not Summary!
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