A way to group and store issues that are not in work currently

[natalia_sandakova]

Hi!

We are starting a new project. In our last project we notices that there were a lot of things we found out and wanted to add to a software we created that were not a part of the original requirements. We either wrote them down somewhere (in a notebooke, on a piece of papar or in a note app), but we lost or forgot some of them. We tried to create an issue in Jira for each such idea, but we ended up with an overwhelmed backolog which was extremelly difficult to navigate and find things in it. A separate project created only to write our ideas there won't solve our problem, as we need something where we can create a Jira issue with an idea written in it and later transfer that issue to a project (not an epic, but a project) we need it to be in.

So I'm thining is there a way to create folders for each project or\and folders that will be outside of all projects, so we can create a tasks for the ideas and store them sepparately, not in a backlog or any particular status  of a project? Or maybe you know an app for Jira to help us manage these things?

Thank you for your help) Have a wonderfull day!

[Tim Perrault · Accepted solution]

Hi @natalia_sandakova 

You could create a different issue type within the project and name it something like ideas.. Then you could update your boards filter to not include those issue types. That way they won't clog up the backlog.

[Наталья С]

Thank you for your help)

This may be an option, but we still need a place to store them. I have an idea how to figure that out. 

Yet this way wouldn't allow us to move issues around projects. We can only store idea for a project in that particular project. Ideally we need a place to store ideas A, BC, D etc. altogether, and when the time comes move idea A to project A, idea B to project B and so on.

[Tim Perrault]

You could use the same project and create different boards. So your main board could be what you want without the new issue type. Then create an "ideas" board for just specifically the one issue type. Then if you want to like promote one of the ideas you could move the issue to another issuetype that is included in the first board.

The good news is there are probably plenty of ways to accomplish this, so hopefully more ideas start rolling in.

[natalia_sandakova]

That's a nice idea. Thank you so mauch.