Name of filter as a column

[Gareth Price]

I am using a number of filters in JQL with filter in (), is it possible to display the name of a filter as a column so I can know which one returned a particular issue? 

Ideally I would like this in a dashboard so it can be viewed inside jira, but exporting to excel will work too. 

[Alex Koxaras -Relational- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gareth Price and welcome to the community!

Unfortunately you can't do that out of the box. Filters return issues, and issues consists of fields. "Filter" is not a field. However you could do that in a manual way:

• Find all issue which belongs to filter A
• Bulk change all issues
• Add e.g. "FILTER A" name on the label
• Do the same process for all other filters
• The add as column the label field

This would work with a a custom field as well, but different custom field type, may require different implementation.

In addition, you could do the above procedure while creating an issue, using global rules.

Alex

[Gareth Price]

Hi Alex, I thought this might be the case. Global rules is something I will look at though I can find many use cases for automation. 

Thanks for the help

Gareth

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Keep in mind @Gareth Price that global rules come with service limits. Definitely read this https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/automation-service-limits/.

If you don't want to use Jira automation, perhaps a workflow automation could be the solution for you.

[John Funk]

Hi Gareth - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

In general I am going to say this is not possible. But can you give an exact example?