Hey Everyone, I'm new to Jira and im trying to get the most out of the tool and wanted to use the "card colours" feature so i can colour cards in the activity sprint view to change colour based on a field called "due date" however having never used JQL and being new to Jira im unsure where to start, essentially im trying to achieve the following: * Colour = RED when the the due date of the card is today or within 3 days * Colour = Amber when the due date of the card is within 5 days of today * Colour = Green when the due date of the card is 6 or more days from today Any help you can offer to help me achieve the above outcome would be much appreciated. Thanks

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How to Use JQl to color cards

Stephen Fell

Hey Everyone,

I'm new to Jira and im trying to get the most out of the tool and wanted to use the "card colours" feature so i can colour cards in the activity sprint view to change colour based on a field called "due date" however having never used JQL and being new to Jira im unsure where to start, essentially im trying to achieve the following:

Colour = RED when the the due date of the card is today or within 3 days
Colour = Amber when the due date of the card is within 5 days of today
Colour = Green when the due date of the card is 6 or more days from today

Any help you can offer to help me achieve the above outcome would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Accepted answers

Warren_mz9b4z

You will need to have project Admin rights to do this.

Go to Board settings and click on Card colours. From the dropdown select Queries, then add your JQL for each different colour. N.B. the order is important because it will use the first colour where the condition matches, so drag the items to reorder.

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Warren_mz9b4z

You will need to have project Admin rights to do this.

Stephen Fell

Thanks for the reply.

Ive got that far the bit I'm struggling with is what JQL code I need to use to make it happen

Warren_mz9b4z

Ah, let's try and get that sorted then.

Colour = RED. The JQL is duedate <= 3d

Colour = Amber. The JQL is duedate <= 5d

Colour = Green. The JQL is duedate <= 6d

I think I'm right in saying that they need to be done in this order, but play around with it and see

Stephen Fell

Super thanks for the help, that id the trick

Lourdes Valladares

Hi there!

It happened to me that colours were being overwritten because the biggest condition applied to everything, I added a "between" range to fix it:

Colour = RED: The JQL is duedate <= 3d

Colour = Amber: The JQL is duedate <= 5d AND duedate >= 3d

Colour = Green: The JQL is duedate <= 6d AND duedate >= 5d

I hope this helps someone with my same issue.

Daniel_rjq9zf

It seems they are evaluated from top to bottom, with the first match deciding the colour

Francisco Soto_t4myh5

With the new UI I can't find the option under Board settings > Card colours.

Any suggestions?

drazorenov

in last two options better use '>' indeed '>='

Marc Koppelaar

Hi @Francisco Soto

This can only be done on boards in company managed projects.

This is not an option in team managed projects

Frank Collazo

So the syntax would be objectType = ASSET NAME AND color=RED AND duedate >=-30d between duedate <=30d?