Filter to populate a board with issues if those issues are linked to other projects

[J.M.]

My teams are 'shared' in nature. We support many 'projects'. We are using somewhat of a kanban approach to address our workflow. I'd like to be more visual on our Kanban board with the work items requested by other projects. My vision is that if another project requests work from our team, the create an issue in our project and link it to an issue in theirs.

I would then like to add a swimlane in our project to populate all of our issues that are linked out to other projects. 

I can use this to limit WIP as well as have those teams help me prioritize their requests.

I'm not sure the best JQL to build the swimlane with? Anything will help!

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello John,

Per your description, you would like to display in a swimlane all the issues in your project that are linked to issues in another project. Is that correct?

If that's the case, you will need a plugin to return this information. The Script Runner plugin give you some a JQL parameter that provides you this kind of information: linkedIssuesOf

issueFunction in linkedIssuesOf("project != testproject")

For more details about it, you can check Script Runner documentation in the link below:

- Scripted JQL Functions

Please, let me know if it works for you.

[J.M.]

Thanks for the response. Would be great if I didn't need a plugin