Can't see certain Stories in swim-lanes when the Epic isn't in my Project.

Justin Page

I have a Kanban board that I have setup with Swim-lanes via Epics. This works great until I get a Story assigned to my Project via an Epic that isn't a part of my current Project. Those Stories simple just don't show up, unless I remove the link to that Epic. If I turn off swim-lanes the Stories show fine with the Epic link showing. Is there anyway that I can see those Stories without having to turn off swim-lanes or remove the link to the Epic?

jndeverteuil

Hi there,

As suggested on Issues missing from the Active Sprint when Swimlanes are configured to use Epics, you can edit your Filter to include epics from other projects!

project = SSP OR "Epic Name" = Epicnessss ORDER BY Rank ASC

Additionnaly, you have more suggestions here : Stories from external epics disappear in swimlanes

Here's one comment that I liked from that issue which I can say worked with JQL Tricks :

Ert Dredge added a comment - 13/Mar/2017 5:24 PM

Just ran up against this one and it actually made my team miss a story we'd committed to in a sprint, it was just invisible on the Active Sprints board throughout our sprint.

If you have one of the plugins that allows you to search across epic linkages (e.g. Script Runner, Search Linked Issues for JIRA, JQL tricks) you could expand your board query to collect the external epics.  For Script Runner it would be something like changing

  original board query

to

  original board query OR (type = Epic and issueFunction in epicsOf("original board query"))

Unfortunately I don't have any of those plugins (Script Runner is the only one available for Cloud), and I don't think they're worth it just to work around this one issue.

There you go!