Can you manually add/remove issues to a Kanban Board without using a filter?

[amanda borowy - NOAA Affiliate]

My group categorizes a "top ten" list of issues based on what they believe are highest priorities for operations. Because it's not a list of the same type of issue or issue creator at all, there's not really a way for me to create a filter for this...but it's also only a list of 10 issues. I'm wondering if there's a way I can just manually add these 10 DRs to a Kanban board in Jira, or if it can only support the full list of issues with a filter. 

[John Funk]

Hi Amanda - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The quick answer is no, you cannot create a board without having a filter attached to it. The filter actually tells the board which issues to display. The board itself has no real built-in functionality. 

So knowing that, there must be something associated with each card that would make it reasonable to connect to a filter for the issues to show up. Since it is across projects and issue types, one way to handle that might be with an Epic. Then you link all of the 10 cards to the epic and base the board filter on the epic. 

However, if the issues are already attached to an epic, then that's not doable. 

A second mechanism would be to create a common component that would be attached to each issue. Something like Top Ten maybe. Since you can link a card to multiple components then you don't have the limitation of the scenario with an epic. However, components are created at the project level so you would have to do a one time create of the component on EVERY project affected. 

In either scenario above - epic or component - you would need to remove the link as issues move out of the top 10 or you could include a not equal to Done as cards are completed and drop out. 

Those are my thoughts off the top of my head. There might be other (and better) suggestions out there. 

[Bill Sheboy]

Yes, and...

You could use the Priority field, making your process to reserve the Highest value for only your top items, and then filter on that field/value.  If you are already using all of the available Priority values, consider adding a new value for this indication.

Best regards,

Bill