Hello, I am looking to create a new swim lane on the active spring page. The URL for this page is http://jira.catro.co.uk/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?projectKey=IT&rapidView=6
Can you help me complete this?
thanks
Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald,
btw: The link, I cannot follow.
What so you mean with 'new swimlane'? An new type or something different?
So long
Thomas
When I select "Projects" then select the category for a project such as in our case "IT" then there are vertical columns named "To Do", "In progress", "QA" & "Done". The columns are populated by the individual tickets. It is one of those columns that I wish to create named "next" to put in between "In Progress" & "QA".
these are the agile board columns (vertical), not the swimlanes (horizontal).
Go to Configure Board, Columns Tab and add a new column of your choice.
Hi Thomas,
I have successfully added a column in the "Configure Board->"Columns" view, but when I go back to view the sprint, the new column does not appear. Will it appear on the next sprint, or is there a way to get it to appear on the current sprint?
Steve
Did you assign any status to the new column?
Dear @Stephen Fitzgerald
this thread now tends more to "general configuration of an agile board" and not to "create a swimlane"
Best you read this article.
If you have afterwards unanswered question - I will help you further.
@Stephen Fitzgerald,
before we continue, do you have full admin rights on your Jira?
as the workflow of your board is not any more standard, you have to continue reading this article.
I think we should step back and revisit some of the concepts here.
My usual starting point is to separate board and project. A project contains issues. A board is a view of issues (possibly from many projects)
Every issue has a workflow. A workflow is a collection of status which an issue might be in. To change from one status to another, you use transitions.
A board selects a set of issues to look at, using a filter. A very common (and useful) approach is to use a board and project together, having a really simple and clear filter of "Project = X"
A board's columns are a collection of status. The most simple case is that you have one column per status, but a lot of us have several status in a column. This is purely down to the team using the board wanting different views. Imagine your workflow includes several development status and several test status. The developer board will probably want to lump all the test status together because they only care about pass or fail. The tester board will take all the new and in-development status together as "not ready for testing yet"
So. Your board can have whatever columns you want. But to make it work, you need to have the underlying status in the workflow so that you can map them into the columns.
(Simplified workflow is another story. It delegates the workflow edits to project admins so the system admins don't have to be a bottle-neck when you need change. But the workflows generated have to be very simple)
Solved it! Many thanks for your help on this.
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