Epics on kanban board

[Nele Smeets]

Hi,

How can I see epics on a Kanban board? Jira 6.2.7 

Thx,

Nele

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

@Nele Smeets, the epics as swimlanes should work. can you provide screen shot of your board filter as well as one for your board w/ Epics as swimlane enabled.

[Nele Smeets]

@Jack Brickey

Here you go:

[Jack Brickey]

this is the way Epics as swimlanes will look...

So make sure that epics are not excluded in your board filter somehow (Board Settings > General > Filter query). And make sure that the issues that are displaying are linked to an Epic.

[Nele Smeets]

@Jack Brickey

It started to dawn that when swimlanes = epics, I only saw stories that did not have epics, three stories.

So now, I added an epic for those three stories, and now... my kanbanboard is empty, no issue show. :s

[Jack Brickey]

so i'm guessing you set the epic link for IG-4, 24 and 27 to a specific epic. Can you show me:

• your board filter
• an image of the epic itself (view screen)

[Nele Smeets]

@Jack Brickey Correct!

Below screenshots of any possible board filter and the epic itself:

[Jack Brickey]

Nele, i believe the issue lies w/ your board filter. It appears you want to exclude all issuetypes except Stories for whatever reason. However, please include Epics. Try changing as follows:

project = IG and issuetype in (Epic, Story)...

[Nele Smeets]

@Jack Brickey yes,hat did the trick! Thank you so very much!

[Jack Brickey]

@Nele Smeets, great. Can you pleas accept the answer? This helps keep our unanswered questions clean. 

[Krisztian Kovacs]

hi there,

you can add the epic issue type to the project and you'll be able to see them on your board but not like on a scrum board.

if you want epics and a backlog, you could start a scrum board with an eternal sprint or a monthly/yearly sprint.

Would that help?

Cheers,
Krisz

[Nele Smeets]

Thx for the quick reply! 

Yes, I wanted to see the epics as swimlanes :)

Using an eternal sprint will do the trick I guess. Ill give it a try.

[Krisztian Kovacs]

That could work, if you just add the issuetype to the project and all.

However I'm unsure about whether epics can be used easily as swimlanes because the epic-issue link is different than the issue-subtask link in Jira.

So you might need to set up custom swimlanes (based on JQL filters).

This is an interesting idea, let me know if you succeed. Thank you.

[Nele Smeets]

That didn't work, the eternal sprint showed up on other (scrum) boards as well.

Adding epics as swimlanes seems to be easy:

But the epic swimlanes simple do not show.

[Phil Vuollet]

" Epics with no issues on the board will not be shown." but why? I do want them to show. If I didn't, I could simply add to the board filter right?

[Brodie Andersen]

new to cloud, optimistic about the kanban feature.  forgive my ignorance- but this doesn't have scrum board parity in terms of seeing and managing epics in the backlog?  teams have to adjust issue workflows to allow this feature to work?  adding more statuses like more adding custom creates a lot of overhead, especially when part of the team uses scrum and lots do not, AND epics are a backbone for all

[SimonH]

Yes Brodie - that's what I want too:  I just want to see Epics on the left of my Kanban Board just like I do on a Sprint Board, so that I can assign Epics by dragging by Stories onto the Epics, filter quickly by Epic, etc.  Is that possible on a Kanban board?

[BEXJonathanD]

Me three.

Like Simon, I would like to have the power of EPICS within my Kanban Board. This means seeing the Epics available as a clickable item in the left toggle window (as is available within the Active Sprints pane on the Scrum boards).

How can we action this type of functionality?

Thanks so much!

[Lina van der Burgt]

If I understand Jonathan and Simon right, you want to display epics in a panel in the backlog, and not as cards on the board? Go to: board settings > Columns. Switch the button 'Epics panel'