What board options do my Service Desk users have?

[Samuel Wilkinson]

I want my service desk teams to be able to visualize their issues with more than counts and filter views on dashboards. What options do I have without paying for additional licensing? I didn't think boards themselves would require Jira Software licensing, but apparently I'm wrong. We're paying a ton for JSD licensing, but I can't visualize JSD issues on a board.

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

Hello @Samuel Wilkinson,

I'm afraid you can't use boards with JSD only (see evaluator resources):

Jira Service Desk does not ship with boards functionality. Boards are a feature that comes with Jira Software Cloud/Server and with Jira Core Cloud in the form of Jira Core boards.

I've just tried it on a JSD Cloud instance:

• I can add a board to a Business project;
• I can't add a board to a Service Desk project.

I'd recommend to vote for this feature request: Allow Jira Core boards to be linked with Jira Service Desk and to watch it to be updated.

As of now, it looks like you'd have to use Jira Software to see your JSD issues on a board.

Hope this helps!

- Manon

[Jack Brickey]

@Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_ & @Alexey Matveev, thank you both for your input here. Up to now I was under the impression that JSD was an app that included/leveraged Core which, as I understand, provides business and agility board support. Reading the article shared in the link and some ‘neighboring’ documents it appears that maybe that used to be the case but now JSD is fully standalone. In my case JSD was added to my existing JSW instance and as the work together it has ofine been a challenge to assess which application is providing a piece of functionality. 

This would seem to be an opportunity for a Community article. ;-)

thanks again for jumping in here and clearing this up for Jordan and me! 

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

I fully agree with you, I've always seen Jira Service Desk as Jira Core + Service desk features. I was pretty sure you could create a board under a JSD project, I made some tests after reading your discussion... :)

[Samuel Wilkinson]

What options does Trello give me in all this now that it is part of Atlassian?

[Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_]

As far as I know, Trello won't help you much. There is a free app to connect Jira Cloud with Trello but it only lets you create Jira issues from Trello cards, not the other way around. Looks like the app Autosync Jira with Trello by Unito would do the job but it is a paid add-on (see pricing here).

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Boards is a feature of Jira Software. Your users must have Jira Software licenses to use boards.

[Jack Brickey]

@Samuel Wilkinson, you mention you can't visualize JSD issues on a board. So are you not able to create a kanban board for your JSD issues?

[Samuel Wilkinson]

My JSD users can't view the board without a Jira Software license, even though none of the issues on the board are for Software projects, and the board belongs to me, not a project. 

[Jack Brickey]

so if you create a Kanban board from your JSD project  (create board from an existing project) and set the location to your profile can you not share it with you agents? I believe this should work since JSD rides on top of Jira Core and Jira Core provides the board functionality. Now you cannot create a board from a Software project of course.