How can I enable the Epic panel in a Kanban board?

[Javier Mayoral Alba]

I'm trying to follow these steps to enable the Epic panel in a Kanban board, but I cannot see the Epic panel check. I am JIRA administrator and my Kanban board has a Backlog column with a status already added. Am I missing something?

Thank you for the answers.

[Javier Mayoral Alba · Accepted solution]

Hi Sam, thank you for your quick response.

I've been investigating further and I've noticed that I don't have that Kanban backlog, like the one you just showed. This is how it looks like for me:

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This is the Backlog column that is showed to me.

For more information, I'm using a shelf hosted JIRA version 7.1.2. I've found that to enable that Kanban backlog JIRA I need to follow these steps. If I've understood correctly, I need to activate Kanban board under the JIRA Software Labs, which is only available in JIRA Cloud.

[Sam Hall]

Yep. It's in Cloud only, I'm afraid. I don't think is a Labs feature anymore - it's there by default now, which it is why it is in the Cloud docs you were looking at here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-columns-764477997.html#Configuringcolumns-enablingkanbanbacklog

Sadly it's not in 7.1.x as you'll see by looking at the equivalent docs for server 7.1 here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver071/configuring-columns-800706589.html, which don't have the section about enabling.

I'm not sure if it is coming soon to server. Maybe someone will be able to comment further on that.

Sam

[Javier Mayoral Alba]

I was afraid that this feature would only be available in Cloud version . I hope that they will add the feature soon in the self hosted version (I don't understand why they haven't done this yet).

Thank you so much for your answers, Sam.  

[Sam Hall]

No worries. I've marked your own answer as accepted, as I think you answered your own question in the end 

By the way, I found the 'Suggestion' ticket for implementing on server version:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSW-15236

You could watch and vote if you are interested.

Sam

[Prem Chudzinski _extensi_]

@Javier Mayoral 1

Use jira 7.4+ 

[Steven F Behnke]

Please tell us what version of JIRA you're using.

[Forrest Parker]

I'm having a similar problem, using the hosted version of jira, 7.4.3 and I don't see a way to turn on the epics list for the Kanban board..  

[Steven F Behnke]

What have you tried?

[Tom Allen]

Adding myself to this thread. I am running Jira server 7.4.2. I can enable the Kanban board, but there is no checkbox to enable the Epic Panel. The 7.4.2 Cloud documentation shows this epic panel enable option; but the 7.4.2 Server documentation does not.

[Sam Hall]

Hi Javier,

Just to check. Your problem is that you don't see the 'Epics panel' option in More (...) > Board Settings > Columns tab, right?

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It should appear after you have dragged a status into the "Kanban backlog" section on the far right, but it sounds like you might have done that.

If you have, can you attach a screenshot of how it looks. That might help others understand your issue.

Sam