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Show Story Points Indicator on Backlog

Simon Balder

Hi! I want to show the story points for a story on the backlog. I have found how I can add a field, but this also adds an entire row making the backlog less comprehensible. I remember in the past there would be a grey circle with the amount of story points written in it at the end of each row of the backlog. How can I set that up?

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Ignacio Pulgar

Story points are automatically shown in the backlog as soon as you set a value in the story being shown:

Simon Balder

That's what I thought! But exactly the grey circle with the estimation you show in your printscreen does not show up in my backlog, also after I estimated it. Looking for the setting that removed it / to add it back in the list.

Simon Balder

In my case it shows the priority by the way, a red, orange etc. arrow.

Ignacio Pulgar

Maybe it is one of those new kanban boards, with backlog as a new feature, instead of a scrum board?

Katy Gerasimenko

The same problem - I changed Estimation on Srory Points - but this don't work for me. Are there any other settings I have to change?

jessica.gilbert@acma.gov.au

I am experiencing the same issue. Is there another setting perhaps?

Andrew Love_kpagsp

Had exactly the same issue. The fix I used was:

In the backlog, select the '...' button and go to 'Board settings'.
In the 'Board settings' menu, select 'Card layout'
In the drop-down menu, select 'Story points' from the list then select 'Add'.

This doesn't add them the way it used to (next to epics, in a grey circle), but it does make them visible in the backlog or board (you can choose to add them to each).

Dominic Marmion Old

This doesn't fix the issue at all. It adds it as a new line which is exactly what no one wants. Read the question again.

Andrew Love_kpagsp

Well, it solved the problem for me. Thanks so much for your polite response though

You'll see, if you read my post clearly, that I highlight that it doesn't fully solve the problem in the way that it used to work. However, it at least makes the story points visible, which was the problem that brought me to this thread.

For those that have a similar issue, and think that having the story points visible is more important than an extra line for each backlog item, then that fix will work.

Best of luck finding the ideal fix you want.

Dominic Marmion Old

Andre Ho

I was able to add the story points by going to Jira Settings > Issues > Custom Fields then search for 'Story Points' and add your project by clicking on the '...' more menu and select 'Configure'. Then, under 'Default Configuration Scheme for Story Points' simply select 'Edit Configuration' and select the project(s)

Hope this help!

Andre

Kevin Gorlick

I was not seeing story points on my board. I tried this and this solved my issue. Thank you.

Booster

So after running through everything previously posted here, I found that if you go to your project settings > Fields > In the top right click the "(gear) Actions" dropdown and select Edit Fields > scroll down to Story Points and click "Required" on the right for Story Points > Go back to your Projects backlog and try and create a new issue, it will bring up the full edit for an issue and yell at you for not having a story point value. Go ahead and enter a value and then create the issue. You will now note that it shows the story point value both on the issue in the backlog and in the info panel on the right for the issue (click on the issue to see this). Now you can go back and change Story points from Required to Optional and all future issues will have story points as an editable field on the right-hand info panel.

John Charnley

Worked for me - many thanks!

unknown

I've seen the story points in the grey circle on a scrum board, but I can't work out how to do it on the Kanban board.

Bryce Snyder

SOLVED! We've been dealing with this issue for months, and this did the trick! Thank you!

xavi.carrasco

Thanks, it worked.

Mykhaylo Kolesnik

Same issue, it seems like it wasn't implemented for Kanban boards. And that's pretty disappointing...

John Jones

@Atlassian, here's another feature request! Make Kanban Boards display Story Points *the same way* they are shown on Scrum Boards... both in the Backlog view *and* the Active Board view.

Ashley Renlund

It's the thing that makes me saddest about the "KanPlan" view.

Wouter van den Heever

Thank you Brett. This resolved our issue as well. You should go work for Atlassian Support team as their advice elsewhere on this community did resolve the issue

Karen B_

This issue was happening to me when I was creating a new project. I wanted to say that I had forgotten to create a board at all, so I could see the project and edit all the fields, but because i had not created a BOARD, the grey bubble for the estimate did not show up. When I went to create a Scrum Board, it configured the backlog to include the grey bubble with all of the numbers. Problem fixed. Make sure you have a Scrum Board created, or this will be blank.

sheer

Ok so I managed to fix this on my instance.

It's important to note that there are several similar fields: Story Points, Story Point Estimation, Original Estimation.

The ONLY one of these that will appear in the grey circle on the right of the issue line in the backlog is the simple Story Points.

For some reason, this field is not a default in projects, at least it wasn't in mine.

In addition, it's not enough to add the field in your screen configuration of your selected issue type, you also need to have the field specifically added to issue types and projects via Configuration Scheme Context.

Bottom line, add the field Story Points to your required issue screens AND associate the field with your project and issue types under Custom Fields > Contexts.

Then it should work

Sasha Tkachev

For me the estimation was present from the get go when using the scrub backlog
But it seems I cannot edit the estimated points from the backlog view. only for the issue view.
I remember in old versions of jira it was possible to edit the estimation by clicking the gray circle, and I can't figure it out how to do it in this version

Danel Leclaire

zd2

THIS has done it, finally!!!

Ellen Daleng_ij4c6u

This is a Scrum board. The problem is with Kanban boards

oliverhoverfly

Yes! This ^^^

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