Group by Initiatives?

[Tracy Turley]

Hi! I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum; however, are there any plans to expand the Group By config on the boards to include Initiative? I saw an old post about a complex workaround from 2020, which I'm not savvy enough to implement. 

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Tracy Turley 

Is Tracy a custom standard issue type (work type) in your Jira Cloud configuration?

Is it a level above Epic in your hierarchy?

Where are you trying to group by Initiative? An agile board? A Plan in Plans?

[Tracy Turley]

Hi! Thank you for the response!

Yes, Initiative is a level above Epic for our workflow. I'm trying to group by Initiative on an agile board.

[Tinker Fadoua]

You have to add it to the Board JQL

May be add Swimlanes to differentiate between Epics and Initiatives

Best

Fadoua

[Tinker Fadoua]

Hi @Tracy Turley 

Do you mean like the way Atlassian has it for Epics on the side? or the checkboxes?

Best,

Fadoua

[Tracy Turley]

That would be great to have initiatives added to the Epic panel. I meant the Group By drop-down on the boards to the right.

[Tinker Fadoua]

Yes it will definitely be a huge plus. May be because Initiatives can be on a different project which a user may not have permission to Browse that could be one blocker

[Tracy Turley]

that's a good point...but the user should only see the issues that are tied to their project for that initiative...so I think that would be ok.