SWIMLANES

[Yafit Haftzadi]

Hello

It is possible to add a status to our swimlanes, "show stopper". It should be for tasks, stories, epic, and subtasks.

Thanks

[Bryce Lord · Accepted solution]

Hi @Yafit Haftzadi

If you're using a company-managed project, under the swimlanes section you can select "Queries" to setup swimlanes that align with whichever issues you set up a query for.

For example, if "Show stopper" is a status in your workflow, you could use Status = "Show stopper" and issuetype in (task, story, epic, sub-task). This should bring in all those specific issuetypes that are in that status within the swimlane.

Here is a link with some additional information on setting up queries for swimlanes at the bottom: Configure Swimlanes 

Hope this helps!

[Yafit Haftzadi]

Hey Bryce, thank you for the quick response.

However, I don't have a good understanding of the Jira workflow, so I need help with what I've been asked to do.

[Yafit Haftzadi]

@Bryce Lord 

[Bryce Lord]

Hi @Yafit Haftzadi ,

How are you defining "show stopper"?

Are you considering it a very important issue that you want to track?

Or is it more of a "blocker" status for a work item, like this issue can't continue forward?

[Yafit Haftzadi]

@Bryce Lord 

I Need to check since we don't have that workflow 

in addition, If we need to create that workflow and configure it with Swimlance can you explain to me how to do it step by step 

Thank you very much for your help

[Bryce Lord]

@Yafit Haftzadi

I only ask because depending on the use-case, using the workflow may not be your best option. It just depends on what you're trying to do.

If you are just looking to identify important issues as a "show stopper" then the most simple way to do that would be to add a label called "showstopper" to the important issues you identify. Then you could just use a query for the swimlane (label = "showstopper") and this would put all those issues into the swimlane.

If you want to go down the workflow route, then it will be a bit more complicated. Here is a link that can get you started: How to create workflows 

[Yafit Haftzadi]

Perfect! 

I think that is exactly what I need 

Thanks @Bryce Lord