Board swimlanes using a custom field without JQL

Tom Lister
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May 11, 2019

Hi

we have a requirement to show swimlanes by month/year. Although this is a more general question about using custom fields for swimlanes (we have a scripted field that displays month/year).

We can acheive this with JQL swimlanes but as the value will shift over time and sets of issues I want to avoid encouraging this regular manual intervention.

My ideal solution is simply to be able to base the swimlanes on a chosen custom field in the board configuration. Its not possible and so far I’ve not found a similar plugin.

options

  • encourage user to use dashboard reports with month/year as a dimension
  • manually add JQL swimlanes when needed 
  • schedule a monthly Epic creation for MonthYear and link new issues to it. Pretty sure I can automate that with scriptrunner
  • schedule script to add swimlanes via API - never tried that.

anyone had similar requests?

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Alex Rouk July 6, 2020

i am surprised no one needs this.. 
i would really like to have this option.. 

Vernon Crabtree August 26, 2020

It does seem obvious that the user should be able to select any field they like. It surprises me too.

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