Why there is no "boards" navigation button?

[Daniels Makarenko]

I have no "Boards" button in my Project and that's why I can't add any new boards to my project... Can anybody tell me please how to fix that?

Best regards
Daniels

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

It simply wasn't deemed to be 'top menu' worthy. Boards are generally associated w/ specific projects and as such they are generally accessed by going to the project first. Now I think that is a bit short-sighted but that is simply an opinion.  There are a few ways to get to them: thru the project(s) that the board references, in the Viewed under Your work menu. There used to be a link at the bottom of the popup when clicking in the Search field but that has disappeared which I was unhappy to see. I would recommend using the feedback link to voice your desires.

[Daniels Makarenko]

Thanks for the reply! 

However I now can barely understand if one can create only one board for one project or I can create let's say 10 boards for 1 project? I would be thankful if you could tell me how I can do that? 

Best regards
Daniels

[Jack Brickey]

you can create multiple boards. Boards can span many projects. It is simply that navigating to boards has been pushed down from a navigation importance perspective. Not particularly happy about it but that is where we are today. I'm betting this is going to change in the future.

[John Funk]

You can create as many boards as you want for a project. Just put the project in the Location field in the Board Settings. 

[Daniels Makarenko]

Thanks, I will try!

[Daniels Makarenko]

Sorry for asking again... I now see the page with boards but when I click on create "new board" and it asks me to choose the existing project - it simply shows no projects even though I have one. 

Here is my project:

Here is this dialogue: 

[John Funk]

It is only going to show you Classic Software Projects because those are the only ones you can "associate" a board with. The Project is only there for showing it as a board in when in a particular project. It does not limit the board to tickets in that project in anyway whatsoever. That is done by the board filter. 

[Jack Brickey]

This is because your project in Next-gen. Now you could create and save a filter with the NG project and create a project from existing filter.

filter --- project = "ophardt maritim app"

[Daniels Makarenko]

Thanks again!

[Justin Meehan]

I don't know...not top nav worthy?  It's the feature that I've seen most users using about 90% of the time when they come into JIRA. 

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Daniels - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can't fix it - that's by design. 

You can get to the all boards list by going to an existing board, click on the dropdown for the list of boards and then scroll to the very bottom of that. 

What I have done is copied that link and then created a link to the boards under the Switch to icon (the square looking icon in the very top left of the nav bar). 

You can see more information about the top nav here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-73180

[Daniels Makarenko]

Hey John,

thank you for the reply. 

I think though, that my general board is quite different from the link you sent me. There are mostly public projects in the list that is shown there and my board is located under https://myadress.atlassian.net/  domain and I have no such option there. As you say, it's by design. That would be good to know then, though if I can create several boards for my project at all. 

Thanks

[John Funk]

The link I sent is just information about the new top navigation from Atlassian. You can place comments there about changes you would like to see - like adding a link for all boards.  :-)

Another option is to just bookmark your list of boards in your browser. Here is the link:

https://YourDomain.atlassian.net/jira/boards

Just change out YourDomain for your site. 

[Ann Hemmons]

One month ago (approx.) the boards button was there at the bottom of the "search" button when you clicked on it. There were buttons for project, issues, filters, and boards. Now all the buttons are gone. If this is by the "new" design, it's very a very poor choice to have removed it. 

[Daniel Eads]

Hello @Ann Hemmons - I just wanted to provide you and others on this thread with a quick update about the links at the bottom of the search dropdown.

Following feedback provided in Jira and through Community, the links were re-instated into the search menu. Our product manager in charge of the search platform has more details on this Community post if you're interested.

Thanks for providing feedback, it really does help inform decisions as we continue improving the Jira Cloud experience!

Cheers,
Daniel

[Ann Hemmons]

Thank you sooo much!! My team greatly appreciates it!!!