Moving the EPICs from issues to backlog ( not from sprints)

[Sivaprasad Varma Danthuluri]

Hi Team,

I have created a new board with a filter, and want the EPICs to be moved to the newly created backlog. 

I have checked in all EPICs, clicked show EPIC panel, and tried to drag and drop from side panel to backlog, but its not happening.

Can any of you help?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Sivaprasad Varma Danthuluri 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

When you are using a board with the Backlog screen enabled, you cannot display the Epic cards in the Backlog list. They are displayed only in the Epics panel.

What problem are you trying to solve by having the Epics in the Backlog list?

[Sivaprasad Varma Danthuluri]

I want to create a scrum from my backlog stories.With this end goal,

I have started creating EPICs and have created a new board with all the EPICs created. I thought as i applied the filter for the EPICs created, all those will fall in to my backlog automatically.

Though i can see all the epics in my timeline view. I want them in my backlog so to create a scrum from backlog items.

[Trudy Claspill]

In Atlassian Jira the assumptions are

1. The scope of an Epic is larger than the time box that is allocated for a sprint.
2. The scope of the Epic will be broken down into smaller work efforts (i.e. child Story issues) that can be completed within the time box of a sprint.
3. You assign to a Sprint only the work items that can be completed within the time box of that one Sprint. That is the ideal, at least.
4. Therefore you would be assigning Stories rather than Epics to the Sprints.
5. Therefore the Epics don't need to be in the Backlog list, because the won't be assigned to Sprints.
6. Therefore, to avoid "cluttering" the Backlog issue list, the Epic issues are segregated to a separate lust; the Epics panel.

There is no method in Jira to force Epics to show in the Backlog issue list on the Backlog screen for a Scrum board.

You can still add the Sprint field to the Epic issue screen, and you can edit that field directly in the Epic to assign it to a Sprint if you feel that you must do that. But those Epics will not be in the issue list on the Backlog screen nor display as cards on the Scrum board.

[Harshit Grover]

Hi @Sivaprasad Varma Danthuluri ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Boards are not a container of issues - you can't move an issue from one board to another.  (Projects are the containers for issues).

A board is a view of a selection of issues.  If you want an issue (Epic and User stories are types of issues) to appear on a board, change the filter for the board so that it includes the issues you want to see.

Regards,

Harshit

[Sivaprasad Varma Danthuluri]

No, I am not moving the issues from one board to another.

• I have created issues inside a project, added labels and component.
• Applied filter to get the issues created by me
• Created a new board applying the filter
• Assumed all the issues will fall to my backlog automatically
• I can see the issues created in the timeline view 

My end goal is to create sprint from the backlog and now my backlog is empty