Items with a To Do status showing on Kanban backlog

[Martin Pendlebury]

Hi everyone

I am using a company managed Kanban project and have a question about the backlog view.

I have enabled the backlog via the Configure Board-->Columns screen. I have dragged the "Backlog" status into the Kanban Backlog column.

When I view the backlog, I see two group, one for "To Do" and one for "Backlog"

My question is - Why do I see the "To Do" status grouping when I have only set the backlog column to show the "Backlog" status?

Here are some screenshots that should help to explain the issue

Column settings

Backlog grouping

Thanks in advance

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Martin Pendlebury,

That is as simple as it is clever: you need a way to move items from your backlog onto the first column of your board. And that's what the to do is for. It allows you to drag and drop issues from your backlog onto the first board column.

Hope this helps! 

[Martin Pendlebury]

Not that it's been explained it makes sense. I thought I could do that by using the statuses in the ticket itself, but for drag and drop that setup make sense. Thanks for explaining.

[Bill Sheboy]

Greetings!

Yes, and...to what Walter describes:

This behavior seems an artifact of the past designs and a misunderstanding of Kanban practices, except in one case.

Drag-and-drop from the "backlog" status to the first "not started" status on the board from the backlog view is only needed for team-managed projects.  Those have (in my opinion) the unfortunate design decision that the board's status / column mapping does NOT effect display of issues on the Kanban board.  They must be explicitly added to the board.

For a company-managed project, this is not needed.  Editing an issue to change the status will add it to the board.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Martin Pendlebury]

@Bill Sheboy Thanks for the further explanation