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What do column constraints actually do?

Joseph Harvey

While configuring boards in JIRA Agile, I've noticed the ability to set column constraints. However, I've not been able to work out what effect they have; The administrator documentation describes how to configure them, but doesn't describe what the effect of their being exceeded actually is.

Possibly I've just missed some crucial line somewhere. If so, where is the line - and if not, what would the line be, if it existed?

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

They prevent cards being dragged into the column when it's going to overflow. Let's say you're using story points and you set a limit of 10. You've got a pile of cards, all with story points set to 3 - you can drag the first three into the limited column, but not the fourth because that would take the total from 9 to 12.

Martin Böhme

As Nic explained and later specified:

A column with Column Constraint: Issue Count or Issue Count, excluding sub-tasks will warn you when you try to move an issue into that column if it is already too full. It will not prevent you from doing it, though.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, for exactly the reasons you state - not allowing "new" issues would be a bit of a bust. Equally, would you really want to limit what you can move into "done", just because you set a limit?

I have not actually experimented with this, but the docs (and, common sense!) strongly imply that column limits only apply to "in progress" columns.

Joseph Harvey

Does that extend to preventing the creation of new items? I ask because I'm using JIRA Agile primarily for bug reports, and preventing new bugs from being reported seems like a bad policy.

Joseph Harvey

Ah, your answer is based on speculation?

Martin Böhme

As Nic explained and later specified:

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