How can I add a link to a project board from the JIRA sidebar?

[John Theuerkauf]

I would like to have a single click to a project board while viewing the overall JIRA dashboard.

[Joshua Balsillie]

Related, but think it's speaking to Jira Server, as opposed to Jira cloud. In the comments it's suggested it's not possible with cloud as well.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-can-I-link-directly-to-a-specific-planning-board/qaq-p/67742

I tried to find my board ID in this fashion but for all my boards I get the following:

https://[company].atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?[...]

[miikhy]

Hi John,

Each board is having its own ID which is known as a RapidBoard ID in the URL. If you open an existing board and check the URL you should get that, you can then copy paste that URL in a new shortcut in the project sidebar.

Hope this helps!

[John Theuerkauf]

Thanks but I want the board to be available in the JIRA sidebar, not the project sidebar.

[miikhy]

If you're talking about Jira Cloud's sidebar (new layout), there's no way to add custom links in it as far as I know. Unfortunately I can't confirm as I'm running Server instances here.

Cheers

[Andreas Hoppe]

I also would like to have such a feature. Since we switched to the cloud I cannot navigate to my preferred dashboard as quickly as I used to do

[Jack Brickey]

your best option (or an option) is a bookmark on your browsers Favorite bar.

[Andreas Hoppe]

The idea is not that bad, I think I'll do it. But anyways I can't understand this design choice. Accessing the issue search also takes longer now then in earlier versions.

[John Theuerkauf]

Agreed - we lost a lot of one and two click functionality with the latest design.  I am not seeing a lot of benefits from removing those items.

[Amy Strange]

It takes longer than you would expect to navigate to boards (especially when you have a lot of them), it would be really useful to be able to add a sidebar or widget to the main dashboard screen with customised  deep links.

[Christoph Zürcher]

I agree here. I really miss a way to directly put links to board in the navigation. Boards are for most of us more importnt than the filters. So I think it should be simiar to this (have an own poin int the top bar, allow favorites). Or in minimum create a gadget to allow board links on a dashboard.