Create Release in Jira Cloud

[Christian Neubauer]

Hi,

as described in the title I want to create a release. Therefore my idea is to somehow flag/label some Jira Issues with the release ID. Let's say "Android XYZ 1.4.5". Then Iwant to can create the release notes page in confluence based on this flag. Is this possible? I found some wiki about releases. However I couldn't find any "Release" button in my Kanban board.

Should I use epics for that? However my opinion is that epics are something else.

[Yuri Kudin]

Hi @Christian Neubauer ,

I would like to invite you to try our add on Release Management for Jira. We have Cloud and Data Center versions. Next Gen projects are fully supported so you will not be limited.

If I understood your problem statement in the correct way, the add can solve majority of your problems:

• Define release in one/multiple projects
• Plan scope and track the progress
• Generate rich text release notes in automated mode
• Also, the add on has a lot more features such as gadgets, environments, Bitbucket integration etc

Hope this will help you.

Also, I have written an article on why Epic is not the best option to track complex releases

Yuri

[Elad Ben-Noam]

@Christian Neubauer  - Next gen is probably not the best choice for what you are looking for.

In terms of Confluence release notes:

Go to search screen and search for the relevant issues : project =XXX and fixversions = YYY

Then save the filter.

On the confluence page you can add a macro for jira issues, there you select the new filter from Jira and publish the page with the relevant issues.

Regarding the things that Nikki suggestions: you can create a new board on a classic project to display the issues from the Next-Gen project and do everything there. just create the board and change the filter to display your NextGen project issues.

(But if you're going in that direction I would suggest moving all issues to a classic project.)

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Hi @Christian Neubauer

there is Releases functionality in jira so you don't need to use Epics for that.

You can create new release in your project in Releases tab in your project navigation (you need to be Jira Admin or Project Admin to create releases)

Then once release is created you can link issues to this release using Fix version field.

Here is link for documentation with more detailed info :)

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-releases-and-versions/

[Christian Neubauer]

Hi thanks.

Releases was deactivated in project settings. 

Ok then. No I can create a new Version and also I can select the version in an Issues where it belongs to. However I cannot see this information on the board. I have to open the issue on order to see the belonging versions.

Also cannot find the versions filter in the kanban board.

may you help me with that?

Edit: Ok I found the overview of all Issues belonging to a version by clicking on the version name. However this work flow really feels just "not right" and like an impurity in the work flow.

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

If you want to filter your kanban by anything (anything that can be JQLed 🙈) you can use these steps:

1. go to Board settings

2. Select "Quick filters" -> add your filter as JQL -> click "Add"

JQL for releases is fixVersion="NAME_OF_YOUR_RELEASE"3. on your kanban board and backlog you'll see new filter added...

I was using this in the past when we were running project and we chose to run it on version bases instead of sprints.

Unfortunately, you need to change this filter with every new version, but it's not that bad if you do if once per 2 weeks or so.

[Christian Neubauer]

Hi, thanks for your help. However it seems that I do not have these board settings available. Very frustrating...

Edit. I'm using a next gen board. It seems that many features are still missing in this kind of board.

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Ah, yes. Next-gen doesn't have these more advanced settings, unfortunately :(