Scrum board jql

Teresa Rhodes

I'm a novice at the scrum board filters. I'm struggle with my teams work crosses many projects so I don't want to bring all of the projects into the query so for those projects that I have not included I wanted to pull a few tickets into the query but as soon as I add the "OR sprint - whatever it is " to the filter and save it. Then I can no longer create or start a sprint. It is like I took off the ORDER BY Rank ASC off the filter.

Here is my query that does save but then the create sprint is greyed out. This query work will populates the board but takes the creat and start functionality is removed. If I just take back the OR out then it works fine.

(project in ("ENT - Payment Gateway BE", "ENT - Get Address", "ENT - CECI Backend", "ENT - IPEN ", "ENT - Service Utilities", "ENT - Ecommerce Subtotals", "ENT - Tools", "ENT - NAIC Exceptions", "ENT - OCheque Backend", "ENT - Tasks", "ENT - NAIC Registry", "ENT - Payment Gateway") AND status not in (Closed) OR Sprint = 8403) ORDER BY Rank ASC

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ok, this is a bit of an obscure one, but it's because of the use of the sprint field in the query.

Sprints are not project or even board fields, they're global.  When you introduce the sprint field into a filter, JIRA has to assume you mean "all projects" (even if another clause limits it, the field makes the search global).  So when it's looking at permissions to create new sprints, it says "oh, filter for all projects" and you find you need to have "create sprint" in every project in the system.

There's a second problem with it, even if you do have rights - limiting it to a single sprint means that your board only looks at that sprint.  Creating another one won't work because it would be outside the board.  So you can't create one as it won't be on the board.

Finally, even if you could go around those, a Sprint board is of no real use if it's locked to a sprint.

Could I ask what you are trying to achieve here?