Boards sub-filters are useless - prove me wrong!

[Boyan Iliev]

Hi all,

I've been reviewing and reading about the boards sub-filters over and over and I see no real use of them. I'm specifically talking about the Board sub-filter defined in the Board settings.

They can "refine" your main filter etc. etc. Why don't you refine your main filter to start with and use the quick filters for any ad-hoc searches?

What am I missing and how do you use the sub-filters?

[John Funk]

Hi Boyan - Thanks for the post. I use them as temporary board changes without having to change the entire board filter to test something or, again, make a short-term temporary change to the board. Also, the board filters are often used in other places such as dashboards or reports as @Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_  has mentioned. So you don't want to be monkeying with the underlying filter for certain changes. 

And another use is that two boards can use the same underlying board filter but be tweaked just a little differently from each other to not have to create a second filter, which reduces maintenance on the admin or filter owner. 

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

Hi @Boyan Iliev 

the sub-filters are useful if you want to hide certain issues from the board without them being removed from reports. The Reports only take issues into account, that are still in that board filter result. Sub-filters only change what you see on the board.

You can use them to hide done issues before 7 days for instance. Honestly: I've not had any other use cases than this, but I am sure there are more.

[Boyan Iliev]

Thank you @Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_ , this is a great point. Although it touches on another JIRA feature I actively avoid - reports.

These days there are multiple ways to pull JIRA data into data-manipulation and visualization friendly tools. Even for non-admins/non-dev it is relatively easy to setup a custom report using a simple "Jira Cloud for Sheets" .....making the default JIRA reports look underwhelming.