how to limit the lst of assignees in the kanban board filter?

VINCENT DUPONT

Hello, 

we have a Jira project that exists for multiple years. In the meantime, some people are gone and their account is disabled, but their name is still used as Assignee on old issues.

These people's name are still visible in the kanban board filter. We would like to remove those names from the filter. Is this possible?

 

I tried to change the Filter with a JLQ like 'and assignee not in (xxx)', but it does not seem to work

thank you

Vincent

Viswanathan Ramachandran

In Jira Cloud, you can’t directly limit the Assignee dropdown on a Kanban board. The Assignee list is populated based on who can be assigned issues in the project, not by the board filter. 

However, depending on what you’re trying to achieve, there are several options:

Option 1: Filter the Kanban board to show only certain assignees (Recommended)

If you only want the board to display issues assigned to specific people, modify the board filter.

project = ABC
AND assignee IN (a,b,c)

or 

project = ABC
AND assignee IN membersOf("Developers") 

 Option 2: use quick filters if that is helpful

Option 3: use component/s or teams instead of Assignees

 

If you’re referring to the Assignee filter at the top of the Kanban board

If you mean the Assignee dropdown in the board’s search/filter bar, there is no native way in Jira Cloud to limit the users shown there. Jira automatically lists users who are relevant to the board/project based on the indexed issues and permissions. This behaviour isn’t configurable.