Filter Epics in Panel to only show Epics with Status of To Do or In Progress?

Question

Maybe there is a better way to do this but I want to filter my Board to only show Epics with an Epic Status of "To Do" or "In Progress" in my Epics panel, can this be done? Let me give a bit more information about what I have and what I am trying to do:

I have 28 Epics currently open on my board, 11 of those Epics are not scheduled to be started in the near-term. I would like my list of Epics in the Epics Panel to show the 17 Epics that I have scheduled for 2019, maybe even just the 9 Epics scheduled for the next couple of quarters. One solution I currently have is to physically move the Epics on hold to a different project, where they can sit and wait to be moved back later next year. However, I was hoping that I could use Epic Status to better control what I see there, I have 4 states available for Epic Status, "None", "To Do", "In Progress", and "Done", would be nice if I could set long term Epics to "None" and have them not show up on my board, essentially leaving only Epics with a status of "To Do" and "In Progress" visible on my board in the Epics panel.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Try a query like this:

project = test and ((issuetype != Epic) or (issuetype = Epic and "Epic Status" is not EMPTY  ) )

Dave Armstrong · Answer

As far as I can tell adding that to my query doesn't affect the Epics panel in my backlog. I tried adding it and the Epics Panel remains unchanged. Here is what I tried:

project in (test) AND "Epic Status" is not EMPTY

This results in a filter query that doesn't return any of my stories/tasks/bugs, only Epics.

I also tried the following

project in (test) OR project in (test) AND issueType = Epic AND "Epic Status" is not EMPTY

This resulted in that I still see all of my stories/tasks/bugs, that is good, but I still see Epics in my Epic Panel that have an Epic Status of EMPTY.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

You can add a JQL like this to the filter of the required board:

and "Epic Status" is not empty