How to add epic to Agile board

[Rajesh S]

I have created one epic. Now I am not sure how to add this epic to a particular agile board.

Please help??

[Rahul Aich [Nagra] · Accepted solution]

You need to make sure that the input to that agile board (can be a filter or project or multiple projects) contains that epic.

So, check what is the input to your board, if it is just a project, then move your epic to that project and it will start appearing on the agile board.

If its a filter, then modify the jql filter so that it includes the epic you just created.

rahul

[John C]

To elaborate on Rahul's answer, cos it took me a while to understand the implications:

• Epics are a type of issue
• Epic issues are typically assigned to someone different than the task issues that are associated to the epics
• Epic issues must be included in the board filter in order for epics to be available for board capabilities, eg in the backlog epics panel, in reports, etc,
• Typical board filter might look like
• project = project-name AND assignee in (user1, user2, etc) ORDER BY Rank ASC
• In that case you need to explicitly include epic type issues
• project = project-name AND (assignee in (user1, user2, etc) or type=epic) ORDER BY Rank ASC