How to make a jira task private?

[larry jones]

I have a jira project that I dont want others to view yet.....how do I keep others from seeing it until its ready?

[Andy Heinzer]

1. What version of Jira is this?   I suspect this might have been a bug that was resolved in a later version.  
2. 6 thousand items on a single board is a lot of data to show on a screen all at once.  This is a scrum board or a kanban?   If this is a kanban, then there is also the concern over what the subfilter is for this board.   On kanban boards you can filter out completed/resolved issues so they don't appear on the board once they are completed.   I could see a scenario where you don't have a subfilter on the board and so you're being forced to show all the issues, even the completed ones.   If this is a scrum board, then I would recommend that you adjust the main filter in order to reduce the total number of issues on that board as a means to address this problem. 

[Jean Christophe Bénistant]

Hi Andrew! My answers:

1. The current version installed is 7.2.0.

2. We are working with scrum board. I will try your suggestion then!

Thanks a lot for your quick response.

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi Emilia,

That version of Jira is susceptible to these pair of bugs about user fields: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-63109 and https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-62628

I think they account for the first behavior you described.   I would recommend upgrading Jira to a version such as 7.2.6 or higher in order to fix that problem.

[Jean Christophe Bénistant]

Hi! I can see bug 63109 is showing the same error as the one I reported, but the cause is  quite different. In my case, the error is shown when making a click in the Responsible field. As the System, for some reason can't connect to the server, it shows the error. After 2 or 3 attempts, the connection is stablished. In some cases, those attempts didn't work, so we had to restart the server.

Maybe the fix also resolves my problem. I hope we can get some budget to update our version.

Thanks!!

[Andy Heinzer]

Responsible is not a system field, so I can't say for sure.  But this same problem can happen to other user fields like reporter or assignee.  If your responsible field is a user field like one of those, then yes, that bug is clearly the one you are seeing here.   I'm confident that upgrading to a newer version of Jira will fix that problem.