How to remove closed Epics from the Portfolio plan?

[Deleted user]

When checking our Plan in Portfolio it now includes Epics that have the status 'Done'. However, these are no loner in scope and should not be included in the plan.

Previously closed Epics were removed automatically, but this is no longer happening.

What am I missing here?

[Gabriele Franck]

Hi @[deleted]

The Epic will not be treated as completed automatically unless you close it and provide a resolution for it.

So the portfolio plan still considers the Epic as open until it's closed while calculating the schedule.

Hope this clarifies! :)

Gabi

[Deleted user]

Hello,

Firstly, thank you for responding. But something is not working the way I think it should. I have closed Epics within my Portfolio plan. The below image is just a snapshot of the closed Epics within my plan. They have even been released...so what am I missing here?

[Matthew Vigg]

@Gabriele Franck - we're seeing the same issue here, we have marked an epic as Done, it also has a resolution of Done plus we've chosen "Marked as Done" in the backlog for the epic. After this it still appears on existing plans and it also gets imported into newly created plans.

Whilst we can exclude an epic from a given plan, this doesn't affect future plans, i.e. it seems currently we have to re-exclude complete epics every time we create a new plan. After time this will become a huge task as the number of epics grows.

[Matthew Vigg]

This also seems to happen with stories and tasks, closing either and creating a new plan brings them into the new plan. This doesn't seem to be consistent as I can see a lot of older stories are not brought in, is there another required step or setting that's needed?

[Mattias Abrahamsson]

Have anyone resolved this problem by now?

Having closed epics which still remains visible in the portfolio board.

[Matthew Vigg]

We are solving this by just filtering the boards by status:

Only slight annoyance is that you need to do this every time you open the plan.

[Mattias Abrahamsson]

Thanks!!

Just found out how the filter works.
That will do the job for now.

Rgds

[Philip Skov Knudsen]

I'm still seeing this error - I have a closed epic, and all the issues in the epic are closed, and it is still showing in Portfolio. I have tried recalculating and it doesn't help.

I'm not quite sure how all this works - can I file a bug somewhere?

[Michael]

Issue still exists.

[katja.zimmermann]

I'm removing the Epics from the plan manually by selecting it an using bulk actions. 

[TP]

in case someone still has that issue you need to go into the plan settings and play around with the exclusion rules. Default is to drop Done issues after 30 days. By bringing it to one day the epics would drop from the plan after 1 day.