To Do column not needed on active board, but getting rid of it hides my backlog

[Jim Strange]

I have a number of columns on my sprint board. One of them is To Do. This is always empty because only things that are in a status of "Ready for Dev" (the subsequent status) appear in my sprint.

However, if I configure the board to NOT show the "To Do" column, then no issues appear in my backlog.

What am I doing wrong?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

They use the Participants field from JIRA Toolkit plugin.

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JTOOL/JIRA+Toolkit+Plugin

You can then use that field in the security schemes.

[childnode]

Sad that's not possible in a native way but it's free and I'm going to try this. Thank you.

[childnode]

can add Participant field which is shown in all project but I can't select this as a conditional Custom Field in the security Screen section, any hint?

and YES, I have re-indexed jira ,)

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

oh! Seems that field is extending CalculatedCFType and not UserCFType. You will need a multi user field and a post function that can copy the current user to that field. Not sure if someone already have written a plugin for that.

[christian13467]

No, there is no plugin for that outside. Copying the value to a multiuser field does not succed, because of wrong formating. It's a pity, that this does not work.