How do I create a dashboard of the backlog items?

Question

We have a stack of items in our backlog and wish to create a dashboard for reporting.  In our backlog we have 528 items but no matter how we filter we cannot get that figure to match our search.

thanks

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

It's a bit difficult because your backlog is determined by several things, and you need to add them together to get it out in other places.

I would

* Copy your board's filter as the starting point.  That will cover your backlog, but also (probably) done issues and stuff already in sprints.
* Add a clause to it to match "done" - that is "And status not in (
)".  For example, "And status not in (done, closed, cancelled)"
* And then the complicated/optional bit that I can't define for you: How you treat issues that are in sprints.  I can't tell you if you consider future sprints and/or the current sprint to be part of your backlog.  But you can use the functions futureSprints() and openSprints() to exclude them if you need to.