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Unable to access board settings to create swim lanes

GKO

I'm attempting to create a swim lane on a Jira Software kanban board. However the only option in the Board > ... menu is "manage rules" and no other option. From what I've read, I need to access board settings to create swim lanes. What am I missing here?

I am admin for the project and we do use sprints on the board page.

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GKO

Ahh! I see the swim lanes in the Kanban (classic) template and not in the Kanban "featured" template which we created as we were new to Jira. Thank you for everyone's answers. Now not sure how to change our current project to classic, but since it's early, we can probably start over.

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Jack Brickey

@GKO, you are using an “Agility” project that does not allow you to change any board settings. You can try to change the project by going to project > project settings and look for details and see if you can change the type. However you may not be able to do this in which case you will need to start with creating a new project and change the template type.

GKO

Thanks! Which project can use swim lanes if agility ones cannot? Is there any template that provides both the scrum/kanban boards that also use swimlanes?

Mary Ramirez_0um4if

@GKO,

You can use swimlanes in scrum and kanban boards. I'd recommend creating a project from a software template.

GKO

I am using a software template project using a kanban board, but the option for board settings (and thus swim lanes) is not present.

GKO

Also, I'm not referring to status columns as swimlanes. I'm referring to horizontal lanes

Mary Ramirez_0um4if

@GKO,

Can you double check in your project detilas that it is not an agility project? Also, are you a board administrator for the kanban board?

GKO

Alexey Matveev

You should create a board from the boards menu and you will be able to use swimlanes.

Jack Brickey

@GKO, as mentioned you may not be able to change. Agility has been in beta for awhile and there was, if I recall correctly, a point where you could change it but then later updates removed the ability. Agility is quite different and if the option to change is not in the details under settings then you cannot. You will just need to create a new project. Now you may (?) be able to Move the issue to the new project. I have not tried this. Go to view all issues for Agility project and see if you can perform a move.

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