All my epics are visible in the Epics Panel. However I am unable to see those Epics in the Backlog

[Deleted user]

All my epics are visible in the Epics Panel. However I am unable to see those Epics in the Backlog OR Active sprints or new sprints in backlog menu.

I'd like to go back to traditional option where we could see the Epic as any other issuetype under backlog or sprints, however I do not see the option to turn off "Epic Column" under Board Settings -> Columns.

Please help.

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @[deleted] and welcome to the Community!

In a scrum board of a company managed project there is indeed no way to disable the epics panel. The items you work on in a sprint are the issues at the story level, i.e. the child issues of epics.

At best, you can hide the epics panel from the ... button near the top right corner of the backlog view, but that won't make your epics visible to be planned in a sprint.

If you want to do something like that, a kanban board does support epics to be on the board as well.

Hope this helps!

[Deleted user]

@Walter Buggenhout  Thanks for answering this very quickly -- noted. In that case -- if I want to treat an epic as a regular issue and see them as a card on my Backlog / sprint / boards -- would you suggest me to move to a team managed scrum project -- and is that option available there ? 

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @[deleted], no. I was assuming from your description (I noticed you were looking for the epics panel in column configuration) that you were using company managed projects.

But the situation remains the same in team managed projects using scrum: you don't work on epics in sprints, you work on the issues within those epics. You will be seeing the same limitation there as well. 

[Walter Buggenhout]

I have in the past set up Epic Kanban boards with only Epics on them, just to create a quick overview of where the bigger pieces of work are in terms of status. That way you can achieve both: run your sprints properly and also have a view on where your epics are in the process (using an extra board)

[Deleted user]

@Walter Buggenhout  how to achieve this? If I create a Kanban board using just the epics in the desired query -- would it give me the desired results?