How do I create epics that only appear on one board in a project that has multiple boards

[Wesley Nel]

I've created multiple Jira boards in project, but when creating an epic it appears in every board. The boards should only display the epic created on that board, please help. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Wesley Nel,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Boards are showing issues based on the filter that it is using, so if you want to only show epics on a specific board you would modify the filter so that it is not shown on other boards. You can do this by for example add a component or use labels and then make sure that the other boards excluded issues with that component or label. 

[Wesley Nel]

When I add a component to the board, the component appears on both boards. When allocating the component to the epic then it appears on both boards, hence I'm confused as to what I'm doing wrong.

[Mikael Sandberg]

You would have to update the filters on all boards, not just the one you want it to appear on.

Your JQLs would look something like this:

The board that should show the epic

project = JRA AND ((issuetype = epic AND component = View) OR issuetype in (Story, Task))

For the boards that should see the specific epics

project = JRA AND (component != View OR component is EMPTY)

or

project = JRA AND NOT component = View

If you are not using the negate as in the second JQL you have to also include the cases where the component field is empty.