Remove done epics form selectable list

[Santiago_Perez]

Even after an Epic is marked done, it still shows up as a selectable option on the story dropdown for epics. Any way to fully archive an epic so it is no longer on the list of epics a story can be added to?

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Santiago_Perez , have you ensured that the Epic Status is set to Done. This is not the same as the Issue status. One thing I do is to create an automation rule or post function to set Epic status to Done when the issue status is set to Done.

[Magdalena Zhisheva]

Hi @Santiago_Perez , 

To remove the epic as a selectable option you need to change it's epic status to done.

To do this go to the backlog -> Epic panel and find your epic, where you can change it's status

Hope it helps!

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Santiago_Perez 

Eventually, an epic's visibility will be controlled by the issue status (an not the epic status as the field is going away).

Until then it can be easy to forget to change the epic status...and so you could add an automation rule to do this for you:

• trigger: issue transitioned to Done
• condition: issue type equals Epic
• action: advanced edit with JSON to set the epic status to Done:

{
  "fields": {
    "customfield_10010": {
      "value": "Done"
    }
  }
}

First...remember to confirm this matches the custom field id for the field in your Jira site using this how-to article: https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/find-the-smart-value-for-a-field/

Kind regards,
Bill