Why were the favorite filters removed from the left nav?

Question

I use my favorite filters daily, so having them in the left nav made getting to them easy.  With the update that removed them from left nav, it is more cumbersome to find the one I need.  I realize I can access them by viewing all starred filters, but I have a lot of filters I use, and it is tedious to have to go search page-by-page for them.  It would be ok if the list when you go to the starred filters provided the entire list you could scroll through instead of having a set number on each page.

Finding my favorites this new way takes extra time and is tedious.

I know it seems small, but it really makes a difference.  Would you consider adding favorite filters back to the left nav?

Jaime Cuevas_gk6h5l · Answer

I remember when Jira actually increased productivity by providing a fast and accessible reference for task information and status.
Now all Jira does is slow people and teams down.  I recommend finding something else for task management.  Atlassian has become just like every other tech giant that does not care about user experience.  Actual user experience, not hypothetical applications from admins or managers.

Erik Eide_khu5kk · Answer

Yes,  trying to use the Starred filters in Jira Cloud after the new navigation is painful !     Before the change, I would simply click on the filters listed on the left to easily use the filters in a meeting to view the work items by each assignee so that we could talk about the work in our scrum.    We could easily review starred filter lists quickly in a meeting.

After the 'new navigation' it took me 20 minutes to figure out how to even find the starred filters.    I found a list of most of them in the new 'expand sidebar' option at the very top left.   But clicking on those filters on the left does nothing.   Shouldn't clicking on those then open the 'filtered All Work' list?

The only way I found to use the filters is to click on the 'View all starred items'  or 'View all filters' under the expand sidebar to open up a new page.   From there, I can at least get the 'filtered All Work' to come up by clicking on one of them.   But then, I need to use the browser back button to go back to the filter page and then click on the next starred filter that I want to use.    This is going to make using the starred filters in all work very painful.

Maybe there is another, efficient way to use these filters in the new navigation, but I have not found it yet.

Ellis, Kathy · Answer

@Trudy P Claspill - This is a snapshot of what I see.  All of my filters used to be on the left in alpha order so I could quickly find and grab what I needed.  Now there are just a handful.  I can click on the link to view all starred filters, but then I have to go through several pages each time I need a filter.