View All Dashboards - Projects filter shows first 5 alphabetic projects

[Trudy Claspill]

In the Dashboards > View All Dashboards screen there is a filter for Projects. When I click on this I see the first 5 projects in my system based on alphabetic listing of project names.

I've checked a few other Jira instances and seen the same behaviour.

I'm not finding any documentation about this behaviour.

The list always is the first 5 alphabetical project names. It is not affected by the project I last accessed.

Is the standard behaviour? Is anybody aware of any change requests related to this? I didn't find any in the Atlassian public backlog.

There was a concern expressed by users that because of this and the lack of some indicator of more projects, that could lead to the impression that there are not Dashboards associated with any other projects.

We can type in other project names and find the associated dashboards. The users just felt the current presentation is a bit misleading.

[Matt Doar _Adaptavist_ · Accepted solution]

I agree that showing the last 5 projects used by the current user would be more helpful, rather than just the first 5 projects by project key/name. Mind you, filters can use more than one project, so I'm not convinced that filtering by project is all that helpful anyway

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Hi @Trudy Claspill , I think that your study is accurate. I had seen this in the past. I feel like it is just something that has been overlooked or not a priority. It is pretty much useless as currently implemented. 😕

I did not find any support suggestions either. I think providing feedback is warranted here.

[Trudy Claspill]

I've opened a support case with Atlassian to see if they can provide any more information on this.

[Bill Sheboy]

And here it is, for those who want to watch / vote for it:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-84364

[Trudy Claspill]

You're fast, @Bill Sheboy !

I only got the email 20 minutes ago that they had opened that CR in response to my support ticket.