Epics from several projects

[Oleg Misiak]

Hi. I have an issue. I have two different projects, and they epics are common to each other. I want to change this, so that epics from the 1st project will be visible only for the 1st project, and not for all projects, and the same for 2nd project. How I can do it?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Oleg Misiak 

Welcome to the community.

Are you working with Classic projects or Next Gen projects?

When you say the Epics are visible, exactly what do you mean?

Epics (issues of any kind) exist in only a single project. In an agile board you can see issues from a single project or multiple projects based on the filter used by the board. If by "visible" you mean they are showing up on multiple agile boards, then you would need to modify the filter(s) on the boards to change what is visible on those boards.

[Oleg Misiak]

I am working with Next Gen projects.

How and where I can hide no necessary epics from another project in board setting or filter?

[Trudy Claspill]

Can you provide a screen image of where you are seeing epics from another project?

[Oleg Misiak]

Like this, on project FF I can see epics from FF and COS project. I want to see on FF only from FF. And on COS only from COS

[Oleg Misiak]

[Trudy Claspill]

I work Classic projects rather than Next Gen projects.

However, in a test Next Gen project I set up I could not get the Epic Link field to display as you have shown. I was able to replicate your display only when I was working with Classic projects and using the "New JIRA Issue View" option available in my Personal Settings.

In that scenario, I do not think it is possible to change the Epics that appear in the list when you are modifying the Epic Link field. The list will show all the Epics in all projects where you have Browse Projects permissions.

[Oleg Misiak]

So, how can I separate these common epics in two projects? 

[Trudy Claspill]

An Epic (or any other type of issue) exists in a single project. If you need each project to have its own copy of an epic, you will have to create two epic type issues; one in each project.

And then both epics will show in the list that displays for the Epic Link field.

[Oleg Misiak]

But I didn`t create the same epics. These epics automatically use in both projects. And I want to separate it. Do you know how can I do it?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Oleg Misiak 

I think I misunderstood your intent when you mentioned that the epics were "common" to two projects.

Reviewing your previous posts, you said

"on project FF I can see epics from FF and COS project. I want to see on FF only from FF. And on COS only from COS"

The image indicates that you want to "see" this is in the list of Epics that comes up for the Epic Link field.

All Epics which are visible to the user from ALL projects will be visible in the list that displays for the Epic Link field. This is by design, per Atlassian, as documented in the comment from "Martin" dated 05/Nov/2015 1:57 AM on this change request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-12016

You cannot change that list so that it displays only epics in the same project as the story.

I believe that addresses your question. 

[Oleg Misiak]

So, in that comments people wrote: "still not resolved, please fix it on web version.".

Does it mean that this is impossible?

[Trudy Claspill]

No, this is not possible with the out of the box JIRA product.

People asked for a specific change. Atlassian chose not to implement the requested change but implemented a different change to at least allow the exclusion of Done epics.