Filter Epics in Panel to only show Epics with Status of To Do or In Progress?

[Dave Armstrong]

Maybe there is a better way to do this but I want to filter my Board to only show Epics with an Epic Status of "To Do" or "In Progress" in my Epics panel, can this be done? Let me give a bit more information about what I have and what I am trying to do:

I have 28 Epics currently open on my board, 11 of those Epics are not scheduled to be started in the near-term. I would like my list of Epics in the Epics Panel to show the 17 Epics that I have scheduled for 2019, maybe even just the 9 Epics scheduled for the next couple of quarters. One solution I currently have is to physically move the Epics on hold to a different project, where they can sit and wait to be moved back later next year. However, I was hoping that I could use Epic Status to better control what I see there, I have 4 states available for Epic Status, "None", "To Do", "In Progress", and "Done", would be nice if I could set long term Epics to "None" and have them not show up on my board, essentially leaving only Epics with a status of "To Do" and "In Progress" visible on my board in the Epics panel. 

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

Go to the epic panel and push the cog item -> mark as done. In this case the Epic will disappear from the panel. 

[Dave Armstrong]

Thanks, but I already have that figured out, I do that on a regular basis. What I am looking for is a way to have Epics that have the "None" Epic Status stop showing up in my Epics Panel. If that is not possible, suggestions on how to "hide" Epics that haven't been started and won't be started for a while. 

[Alexey Matveev]

You can add a JQL like this to the filter of the required board:

and "Epic Status" is not empty

[Dave Armstrong]

As far as I can tell adding that to my query doesn't affect the Epics panel in my backlog. I tried adding it and the Epics Panel remains unchanged. Here is what I tried:

project in (test) AND "Epic Status" is not EMPTY

This results in a filter query that doesn't return any of my stories/tasks/bugs, only Epics. 

I also tried the following

project in (test) OR project in (test) AND issueType = Epic AND "Epic Status" is not EMPTY 

This resulted in that I still see all of my stories/tasks/bugs, that is good, but I still see Epics in my Epic Panel that have an Epic Status of EMPTY.

[Alexey Matveev]

Try a query like this:

project = test and ((issuetype != Epic) or (issuetype = Epic and "Epic Status" is not EMPTY  ) )