How to Use JQl to color cards

[Stephen Fell]

Hey Everyone, 

I'm new to Jira and im trying to get the most out of the tool and wanted to use the "card colours" feature so i can colour cards in the activity sprint view to change colour based on a field called "due date" however having never used JQL and being new to Jira im unsure where to start, essentially im trying to achieve the following:

• Colour = RED when the the due date of the card is today or within 3 days 
• Colour = Amber when the due date of the card is within 5 days of today
• Colour = Green when the due date of the card is 6 or more days  from today

Any help you can offer to help me achieve the above outcome would be much appreciated. 

Thanks 

[Warren · Accepted solution]

You will need to have project Admin rights to do this.

Go to Board settings and click on Card colours. From the dropdown select Queries, then add your JQL for each different colour. N.B. the order is important because it will use the first colour where the condition matches, so drag the items to reorder.

[Stephen Fell]

Thanks for the reply. 

Ive got that far the bit I'm struggling with is what JQL code I need to use to make it happen 

[Warren]

Ah, let's try and get that sorted then.

Colour = RED. The JQL is  duedate <= 3d

Colour = Amber. The JQL is duedate <= 5d

Colour = Green. The JQL is duedate <= 6d

I think I'm right in saying that they need to be done in this order, but play around with it and see

[Daniel]

It seems they are evaluated from top to bottom, with the first match deciding the colour

[Lourdes Valladares]

Hi there!

It happened to me that colours were being overwritten because the biggest condition applied to everything, I added a "between" range to fix it:

Colour = RED: The JQL is  duedate <= 3d

Colour = Amber: The JQL is duedate <= 5d AND duedate >= 3d

Colour = Green: The JQL is duedate <= 6d AND duedate >= 5d

I hope this helps someone with my same issue.

[drazorenov]

in last two options better use '>' indeed '>='

[Frank Collazo]

So the syntax would be objectType = ASSET NAME AND color=RED AND duedate >=-30d between duedate <=30d?

[Francisco Soto]

With the new UI I can't find the option under Board settings > Card colours.

Any suggestions?

[Marc Koppelaar]

Hi @Francisco Soto 

This can only be done on boards in company managed projects.

This is not an option in team managed projects

[Stephen Fell]

Super thanks for the help, that id the trick :)