Can epics span multiple projects with the 2018 version of Jira?

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with the following modification to Jira:

Projects and boards play as a team

Previously, there were global boards that contained work from multiple projects. Those are a thing of the past.

Since boards now have their own location, the sidebar displays options relating to the project that contains the board. Even if your board contains issues from several projects, the sidebar remains project-centric, giving you quick, navigation to the work related to your project and board.

Last modified on Oct 3, 2017

and this statement in documentation:

Managing epics with the Kanban backlog

* The Epics panel for the Kanban backlog must be enabled for a particular board as well, for the board users to use it. See Enabling the Kanban backlog for more information.

Is this statement true?

If an epic must belong to a board and a board must belong to a project  then an    epic must belong to a project.

If it is false, how are epics referenced by multiple projects?

Eric van Beaumont · Answer

Thank you for your response. Just wanted to make sure

Warren_mz9b4z · Answer

Hi Eric

An Epic doesn't need to belong to a board, the statement from the documentation is saying that you need to enable the epics panel for a specific board to be able to see the Epics. I can easily set ticket ABC-1 from project ABC to have an Epic of XYZ-2 from project XYZ.

A board doesn't have to belong to a project, you can set it as such for convenience so that you can navigate between boards of a project. You can also set a board as belonging to a user. What the statement is saying is that a board needs to belong to "something".