Multiple Board Views for 1 Project

[Jarrod Oliver]

Hi,

I would like to have a Board view where no filters are applied and an additional board view where I can apply a filter.

How can I do this in Jira?

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jarrod Oliver and welcome to the Community!

First of all, your project needs to be company managed - as team managed projects only allow you to have on board in them.

Next, from your board, expand the menu and click Create Board to add an additional board:

This will allow you to add a new board, based on a project or a saved filter. To learn more about board configuration, see this support article.

Hope this helps! 

[Jarrod Oliver]

Thanks. The company-managed project is what I am missing. Perhaps I am misunderstanding company managed but this seems like a massive limitation if you are working for a very large company with very different requirements and non-centralised IST groups. 

[Walter Buggenhout]

I am not really sure how you get from multiple board views for 1 project to massive limitations for a very large company, but the first thing we usually do (working for an Atlassian Solution Partner) with large companies, is disabling team managed projects. Nothing wrong with them in se, but they do have their limitations - definitely at scale and when it comes to collaboration with other teams.

We usually set up enterprise grade configuration using company managed projects.  These allow you to share configurations so you can scale and maintain your setup easily for teams with similar requirements and differ whenever it is needed for other teams. While the learning curve to configure company managed projects is definitely steeper than on team managed, there are more benefits than downsides to them in an enterprise context, in my experience.

[Jarrod Oliver]

Thanks - if it's possible to create standalone company managed projects than this will be suitable. Appreciate your help.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Hi Jarrod,

As Walter posted, you can easily create a new board from the project board menu, or you can navigate to https://<SITE-NAME>.atlassian.net/jira/boards (if you're not using custom domains/product branded URLs) and use Create board button on the top right of the screen.

Next, follow the steps for creating a new board via the opened prompt panel - select which type of board you want to create (scrum/kanban) > select whether you want to create a board together with a new project, from an existing project or from filter/JQL and in the last step you can select location, which in your case would be project where you want to place your board.

Note that each board must have a filter. For this part specifically:

I would like to have a Board view where no filters are applied...

my guess is you want to show all issues from the project. So the filter would be something like

project = <PROJECT-KEY>

*this filter most likely already exists if you already have a board located within the desired project so try to search for it; if not, you can create the new one.

And as for the second board, you can follow the same steps just attach different filter.

Also, you can always change the query for the filter(s) that are assigned/attached to each board (if you have filter edit permissions).

Cheers,
Tom

[Jarrod Oliver]

Thanks Tomislav, appreciate your response. I will need to investigate company managed projects.

[Jarrod Oliver]

A workaround may be that I set up a default view or filter for a particular user if that is possible. Saves creating additional boards.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Yeah. For example, if you need to display issues for each user (which are assigned to them), you could create a 'dynamic' filter by using currentUser() function. Something like:

assignee = currentUser()

With this, you wouldn't need to create separate filters/boards for each user but rather just one which would display different issues for each user (based on the Assignee field).

This is just an example but I think you get the point.