Clearing Cancelled tasks with release

Question

Hello! I am trying to see if I can clear out Cancelled tasks within my Kanban board with my spring releases. is there a way to do that? I have gone into settings - Issues, then resolutions. I have added cancelled into that list of resolutions.  I have also set Statuses list, with cancelled set to Category "Done".  But when I release my board/items, the cancelled items are still in the cancelled row.  These items will not be reopened, but i'd like them on record that they were cancelled.  Is there a way to do this that I am missing?

Thank you!

Vinu_pahcqf · Answer

Hi @UKEngineering

Only the issues in the right most column will be released as Alexey has mentioned earlier. So in your board configuration you must set the cancelled status to the done column as well. This should release all your done and cancelled issues.

Now the other thing you should pay attention is to the versions that the issues are mapped to. If you allot your issues to particular versions before completing them, say version 2.0. The again you will have to set a release version, say version 2.1 when you release it from the kanban board. Now you have release the version 2.1 and not 2.0. This will mean that the issues will be assigned to both the versions and since 2.0 is still unreleased the issues will keep appearing on the board.

So if you set versions ahead, you have to release them from Project Administration --> Versions screen.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Only issues in the most right column will be cleared

UKEngineering · Answer

What do you need a screenshot of?  There are columns on the kanban board. I have 6 columns on this particular Board i'm trying to work with.  One is cancelled. It's next to Done.  I'd like to have the Cancelled column clear out when I press release of my kanban board. I just want to move those particular things OFF the board when I hit release for my sprint/etc.