Can a Kanban Board display Issues that are linked to a another projects Story/Epic?

[Luke Wirth]

HI

I have searched for an answer to this as am sure it has come up previously, but could not find anything (so far).  

We have multiple Jira projects (1 each per Product Team) and Kanban board swimlanes are grouped by Epics.

Now, we have a Task in Project A that is linked to a Story (& Epic) in Project B, however the Task is not showing in the Project A Kanban board - I assume as it is linked to an Epic that is not in Project A; would this be correct?

If so, is there any way to display issues in Project A that are linked to Project B's Stories/Epics?

This is in Jira DC/Server, not Jira Cloud if that makes any difference.

Thank you :)

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hi @Luke Wirth,

I can confirm it's possible to show tasks from another project in a Kanban board. Can you please check the filter used in your Kanban board (see documentation)? I assume it's restricted to project B, and that's why you can't see your project A's task.

Hope this helps!

- Manon

[Luke Wirth]

Hi Manon, this is helpful thank you.

So the current board filter for Project A is simply: "project = ProjectA ORDER BY Rank ASC"

So I could change this to "project in (ProjectA, ProjectB) ORDER BY Rank ASC" but then that would pull in all issues from Project B too (I assume), whereas I only want to display issues that are in Project A, plus issues that are in Project A that are linked to Epics/Stories in Project B (so not all issues in Project B).

I was thinking a filter simlar to:

"project = "ProjectA" AND (project = "ProjectA" AND issuetype in (Task, Story, Bug) AND issueLinkType = "Child of" AND project = "ProjectB")"

Now this doesn't work, and I can see why, but I can not think of a filter that will work to provide the results I am looking for. 

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Are you on Jira Cloud or Server/Data Center? I typically use this JQL query in Jira Cloud:

project = projectA OR (project = projectB AND issuetype = Task AND parentEpic in (projectA-123, projectA-124))

Where projectA-123 and projectA-124 are epics' keys, but it only works when specific epics tend to have children in other projects.

[Luke Wirth]

I am on Jira Data Centre but am wondering if something along the lines of the below would work:

project = ProjectA OR (project = Project A AND issuetype in (Task, Story, Bug) AND parentEpic in (ProjectB))

[Luke Wirth]

So using the guidance from @Manon Soubies-Camy I have created the following filter which works when searching via the Issues screen, but does not work as a Quick Filter in the Kanban board!:

"project = "ProjectA" OR (project = "ProjectA" AND issuetype in (Task, Story, Bug) AND "Parent Link" = "ProjectB")"

It is as though the board can not display the issues as it is linked to an Epic on another board (because the board's swimlanes are based on Epics).

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Try to use your JQL as a board filter rather than a quick filter:

Hope this works out!

- Manon

[Luke Wirth]

I did try this but the board still only shows issues related to Epics in its board, not the issues related to another boards' Epics.  I am totally confused now!

Also, if I use the following as a quick filter:

project = "ProjectA" OR (project = "ProjectA" AND issuetype in (Task, Story, Bug) AND "Parent Link" = "ProjectB") AND assignee = currentUser() AND resolution = Unresolved ORDER BY issuekey DESC

it doesn't display the issues linked to the other boards Epics either (even though they are assigned to the current user!)