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How do I create boards in existing project in the new JIRA?

Steven Garbarino

In the previous version of JIRA, it was easy enough to create a board in an existing project. You could do it from the project, or you could also go to the "boards" tab in the main nav. However, if I do not already have a board, there is no way to create a new board in the new JIRA UI.

Funny enough, if you do have a board in your project, you can create another by clicking on the three dots in the project's board view.

It makes it difficult to set up a new project, because I now have to create from Scrum or Kanban, and go back and set up the all schemes I need. I would much prefer to copy from an old project structure, and only have to set up the board.

Accepted answers

Federico Rabinstein

As you mentioned, the 'Create board' option is available on the Boards tab, but this tab is shown only if your project already has a board. So if you have no board, you cannot access the 'Create board' option...

However, you may go to a different project that does have a board (or even create a bogus project if necessary), in order to be able to access the 'Create board' option. Once in the 'Create board' UI, you'll have the chance to indicate which project(s) your new board will include.

(EDIT: typos)

All comments

Anton Chemlev - Toolstrek -

You can use "Create project with shared configuration", this link is available on "Create project" dialog screen. This will create new project which shares all the configs with existing project you've chosen as a template.

Steven Garbarino

Yes, thanks for responding! This is how I normally make projects, but it doesn't copy over the board.

So now I just need to build the board!

Federico Rabinstein

(EDIT: typos)

Steven Garbarino

This works! @Atlassian should definitely fix it, as I don't imagine this is how they intended for new boards to be created, but the solution works for now. Thanks @Federico Rabinstein!

Ryan Kehoe

I agree. This is a terrible UX until it gets fixed. @atlassian needs to address. If this is a tool built to support Agile, boards are an integral part of Kanban and Scrum, and creating one at the beginning of a project needs to be very easy.

Wes Turner

Super horrible user experience. There's got to be a better way to get boards added to a new project without several clicks. Currently the easiest way is to switch back to the old theme and click the dropdown beneath the project info in the top left side of the screen.

John Lovell

This is a huge huge problem for Jira Cloud users that renders the "Create project with shared configuration" option completely useless for the way we use our organization.

The kanban board is an essential component to Jira - why does this template option remove the ability for a board or not have a default blank board like you would normally have when creating a project from scratch?

Mohamed Errais

At worst: We start by defining the board for each project, waiting for the publisher to deploy the solution...

Joseph Wong_d03414

There is an issue regarding the problem with "Create project with shared configuration", it feels like a bug to me that no board was created when using shared configuration. And you can't even add the board to the project directly inside the project.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-12804

Mauricio Hernandez_cgfw4b

Hi all!

And now in June 2019 are there a solution?

I'm new at Jira and I don't know where else find for help with this issue.

Regards

Michael Laugesen_v23zq6

This is the worst. Im considering to abandon Jira. I cant create boards - i can get the dialog to open, but it is unresponsive. What a mess. Please fix

Jack Brickey

@Michael Laugesen , can you elaborate on your problem? How are you attempting to create a board and of what type (scrum/kanban)? Is the project for which you plan to include in the board NG or Classic? I expect your post should be a new question but unclear as yet.

Michael Laugesen_v23zq6

Yes ofc.

I am trying to create more than one next gen boards. As i have move through the community forums I have discovered that it is a (feature?!) to only have one next gen board. This is beyond my comprehension.

I have to oversee a project in different departments, but under the same dev cycle; eg I need to have a roadmap with epics, stories, tasks and different boards for: Design, Engineering, Dev etc. They each have their own workflow, so filtering is not an option.

I was so happy to use Trello, but it had it limits too (no real PM overview - only one board at a time)

DK Long

any updates on this yet? i can't create extra board for my project!

Stanislav Petrov_0rs501

I have the exact same problem and i am shocked it doesnt have an answer and the UX is so terribly bad. We were planing to move over from Trello but i have to search more for as simple tasks as creating a new board than when i am coding ..

Iddo Weiner

Must add that this indeed feels very much like a bug.

The "create new board" from the "view all boards" is a workaround that worked nicely for me.

But... this is clearly just that, a workaround. Not intuitive...

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