Create filter based on userpicker field

[Kajal Mittal]

I have a field assignee and created a userpicker[single] field named as coassignee, When I click on particular user from swimlanes, I get jiras assigned to that user. I also want jiras coassigned to that user. How to achieve it.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Kajal Mittal -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

That is not possible.  Jira boards only use the assignee field for that avatar-based filtering.

A work-around for what you ask is to use Quick Filters for your board, adding one for each person.  For example:

assignee = Bill OR coassignee = Bill

Kind regards,
Bill

[Kajal Mittal]

If I create a quick filter and write jql, but then how will I use it in my standup meetings. I have 50 users,so, according to your answe, do I have to create 50 quick filters.?

Can you help in elaborating

[Bill Sheboy]

Yes, that is correct.  What type of project are you using: company-managed or team-managed?  If you are using company-managed, you could instead create swim lanes based on JQL for each person.

And I wonder: if at the stand-up, 50 different people have 1 or more things in progress they are discussing, there may be larger challenges involved than filtering the board.  Perhaps discuss this situation with your team's scrum master/agile coach to learn their thoughts.

[Kajal Mittal]

Hi @Bill Sheboy  I tried that but it didn't seem to work. 

This is what I tried:

Go to swimlanes tab, selected base swimlane as queries and just wrote below JQL and added that.

I have written query as  project=<projectname> and (assignee = <username> or co-assignee = <username>)

Can you help me if I have done something wrong.

[Bill Sheboy]

Would you please post a screen image showing your board settings for quick filters?

When you entered that JQL in the quick filter, what did you see happen?

For a company-managed project, when I enter a quick filter with JQL for a specific user, it will auto-complete to replace the user's name with their account id value.

And so you would need 50+ quick filters based on your scenario: one for each user.