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How to display Epic Link/Label inline in backlog?

Mark Shimala

Hi,

How can I display a stories Epic Link or label inline with the story (not on the next line)?

When going to Board>Configure>Card Layout>Epic Link it shows it below the story and takes up too much space.

I should not that I have one board that already has this functionality, but can't figure it out on my other board.

Thanks!

Accepted answers

Sam Hall_h1otcf

Hi Mark - you toggle them on and off using the 'Show/Hide epic labels' option:

Looks like this in JIRA Cloud:

Or like this in JIRA Server:

Andy Heinzer

Hi everyone,

In an effort to try better help other users that search on this topic, here is an updated answer.

In order to see the epic labels in a board backlog, not only does the "show epic labels" board option need to be on (Board -> Show Epic Labels)
BUT more importantly, you need to make sure that the JQL filter this board is using also includes the specific epics that you want to appear here as epic labels on those cards/issues.

In many setups the epic issue types might not be included in the board filter, or the epics might be in a different project altogether. In order for the epic labels to appear on a board, those epic issue types have to appear in the search results of the JQL filter in use on that board.

For example:
If your filter looks like this
project = abc and customfield=xyz order by rank asc

but your epics exist in different projects, you can change the filter to look like this

(project = abc AND customfield=xyz) OR (issuetype=epic) order by rank asc

This would gather all issues in that project AND all the epics that exist in any project that this user has access to.

I hope this helps.
Andy

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Sam Hall_h1otcf

Hi Mark - you toggle them on and off using the 'Show/Hide epic labels' option:

Looks like this in JIRA Cloud:

Or like this in JIRA Server:

Mark Shimala

Thanks for the quick reply!

I have that option selected, but do not see the epic label for some reason (I assume this is the same as the Epic Link).

Each story in my backlog is associated to an Epic via an Epic Link.

Any idea?

Edit: When opening the Epic Panel, I do not see any epics either. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.

Edit2: I found this fix https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/epic-tag-or-label-is-missing-on-sprint-board-779158640.html however adding the epics to my board filter, then turning off and on the option does not fix it for me.

Sam Hall_h1otcf

What is the filter query for your board? (Check it via Board > Configure > General)

Does it include your Epics?

Mark Shimala

Here's my filter query:

project = DSD AND labels = AutomationPhase3 AND "Epic Link" = DSD-40884 OR "Epic Link" = DSD-40885 OR "Epic Link" = DSD-40886 OR "Epic Link" = DSD-40887 OR "Epic Link" = DSD-40888 ORDER BY Rank ASC

I'm sure there's a better way to write that, but wasn't sure how

Edit: I've also just recreated a board with the same filter and it does not work; however, the Show/Hide Epic Labels does work when using a Kanban board instead of Scrum board

Adam McMillan

We had this issue just now. It's because our query was filtering out Epic types of JIRA

Make sure you base query doesn't filter out the epics!!

Greg G

I think the issue is that your filter says "things with "Epic Link" defined as XYZ".

Epics don't have an epic link, therefore the epics themselves are being filtered out. To add them back in, try the following (built on top of @Sam Hall's cleaned up query):

(key IN (DSD-40884, DSD-40885, DSD-40886, DSD-40887, DSD-40888)) OR (labels = AutomationPhase3 AND "Epic Link" IN (DSD-40884, DSD-40885, DSD-40886, DSD-40887, DSD-40888)) ORDER BY Rank ASC

SynCarsten

This was the solution for us as well! Thnx!

Our query contained: "type in (x, y, z)", where "Epic" was not included.

Andy Heinzer

Hi everyone,

In an effort to try better help other users that search on this topic, here is an updated answer.

For example:
If your filter looks like this
project = abc and customfield=xyz order by rank asc

but your epics exist in different projects, you can change the filter to look like this

(project = abc AND customfield=xyz) OR (issuetype=epic) order by rank asc

This would gather all issues in that project AND all the epics that exist in any project that this user has access to.

I hope this helps.
Andy

Ankit Seth_mn0t6f

Thanks @Greg G for the working query. I was correctly using Epic link but still issue was there as in I was not able to see the Epic labels and epics in backlog and as a result nothing was displayed in reports tab of JIRA. But when I used "key in (epic-id)" the issue was resolved.

Greg G

Excellent! Glad I could help ;-)

Jan Zítka

Thank you, i forgot on Epic in board filter. (y)

Morgan Tiley

Hello @Andy Heinzer - this was driving me crazy, but I just realized it's broken in Firefox. Works in Chrome.

I followed your directions, cleared cache, re-logged in, ctrl-F5... nothing makes the epic labels show.

Morgan Tiley

@Andy Heinzer following up on this - I tried private browser window in FF and it worked, so I then deleted all cookies, session, local, index storage through devtools and that resolved the problem. Maybe it's some old setting that didn't get cleared out after some changes.

Святослав Крыжановский

Hi guys, I have the same issues. I am trying to change the filters, but it is doesn't work.

I have 2 Epic called MYP-1 and MYP-2 and their labels are not shown in the backlog. Could anybody assist with the filter query, please?

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