How to load tickets from other epics on my kanban board

[Elliott Lemberger]

When users put tickets that are on my board into Epics that live on other boards, is there any way to have those tickets appear on my Kanban? Currently the swimlanes on my Kanban are set to group by epic.

My assumption is that since there are tickets on my board that live inside Epics that are in other boards that they are not showing up as a swimlane since the swimlanes can only show epics on my board.

Is there any way around this, and if so how?

Thanks so much!

[Elliott Lemberger · Accepted solution]

So I figured it out...it seemed the only way to achieve what I was after was to Base my swimlanes on Queries, then having a query for each epic on my design board (not a big deal because I use only three Epics right now to classify tickets on my board).

Then I added the following query to include projects on my board that are in epics on other boards:

project = "Design " AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-997 AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-994 AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-995

The thing I'm stuck on now is whether there is a way to include tickets from other projects in a swimlane on my board by adding a label. This is what I'm trying to use as a query, but it's not working:

(project = "Design " AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-997 AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-994 AND "Epic Link" != DESIGN-995) OR labels = "design-board"

My board filter also includes: labels = design-board

But when I tag tickets from other boards with the label design-board, then don't show up in my kanban.

Any ideas on this one?

Thanks again for the help!

[Elliott Lemberger]

So, once again I figured out the answer to my own question...

Leave a man alone on an island long enough, and he'll learn how to fish.

The tickets that I had labelled design-board weren't showing up on my Kanban because either, a) they were Epics, or b) they didn't have statuses that mapped to columns on my board.

Once I changed the status of one of these tickets (not an epic) to a status that maps to one of my Kanban columns, it magically appeared on my board.

Hope my own trials and tribulations help someone else out one day.

[Rutger]

Does anyone have a different solution?

I really don't want to base Swimlanes on queries, as my set of Epics is somewhat dynamic.

[Rutger]

Actually solved it by specifically including the Epic in my Filter query.

Although the Epic itself does not show on the board, it is now considered as a Swimlane.

[Elliott Lemberger]

Thanks @shetty. Unless I'm missing something, Setting Parent = epic isn't a valid option:

[shetty]

you should try if the epic is within the project

project="Design" and "Epic Link" in (Epic-1,Epic-2)

or

project="Design" and "Epic Link"=Epic-1

If you are using the epic from different project then you should try

project="Design" or "Epic Link" in (Epic-1,Epic-2)

or

project="Design" or "Epic Link"=Epic-1

[Elliott Lemberger]

Thanks @shetty, but is there any way to do it dynamically, so I don't need to manually add Epic id's whenever a new one is added? If people add tickets on my board that exist inside other (new) epics, I'd like them to be able to appear on my Kanban without having to update the filter every time to include the new epic.

But if that's the only way, I'll take it.

Thanks for the help!

BTW, one thing I still don't understand...why would I need to add anything to project="Design" ? Shouldn't such a wide query pull in any ticket in my project? Thanks again!

[shetty]

as you have you want the tickets of others boards to appear on your board under epic

this is the way 

Project="design" includes the each and every tickets raised under this project, if you don't include this then some of tickets gets disappear from board created under this project and and not included in the epic that you are taking about.

"Epic Link"=Epic-1 includes the tickets under this epic even the tickets are from different board or project.

[Elliott Lemberger]

So I've tried I believe exactly what you've specified:

There is a Design board ticket in that epic, but it doesn't show up on my Kanban.

With that filter, tickets from the epic LDS-1 appear in my Design project backlog, but none of them appear on my Kanban. Any other ideas?

Thanks again!

[shetty]

You have to change board filter in board settings, so that all the tickets whose parent is epic appear on this kanban board