Hide one of the status on Jira Board for a Team-managed project

[HQRAZAHS]

Hello,

I have a team-managed project and I want to hide the Backlog section on the board so that the board looks less complicated. How do I do this? Please help.

Attaching the view of my current board.

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @HQRAZAHS , thanks for your post.

It should be possible to collapse the column you don't want to see, like this https://www.loom.com/share/674c31c2b48f4d7e92c97286f68be491?sid=0b32c131-b0be-4893-aab3-c2b575ee35b1 .

Does that help you at all?

Best wishes

[HQRAZAHS]

@Valerie Knapp that's a good workaround but I doubt if it will work cuz my manager strictly do not want the backlog to be displayed. Is there a possibility?

[PM_이유경]

You can add or remove columns by going to Board settings > Layout > Columns.

[Trudy Claspill]

@PM_이유경 

Based the image provided the project is a Business project. The Board Settings > Layout > Columns option doesn't exist for such projects.

[PM_이유경]

There should be a place where you can configure board settings.
In the left-hand menu, under the Project Board section, if you click the "..." (more options), is there a settings menu?

[Trudy Claspill]

@PM_이유경 

For a Business project the options for board configuration are limited.

From Project Settings these are the available options. As you can see, there is not Board option.

And these are the only options available from the board view itself.

The settings you are thinking of are available only for boards created with Software projects, or boards created from Saved Filters.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @HQRAZAHS 

Can you provide more information about the problem you are trying to solve? I understand that you believe hiding the column is the solution. However if we have a better understanding of the actual problem we may be able to suggest a better solution.

How is having that column presence "complicating" the board?

Does you manager not want people to be able to see the issues that are in the Backlog status? Are there any people that should be able to see those issues?

Also, what type of project does this concern? Get that information from the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

[HQRAZAHS]

@Trudy Claspill  its the team-managed project. The backlog often contains a large number of issues or tickets, many of which are not immediately actionable. Displaying all of them on the board can clutter the interface, making it harder for team members to focus on current priorities. By hiding the backlog, the board remains clean, simple, and easier to navigate—allowing the team to concentrate on the tasks that are actively being worked on during the sprint or current workflow phase.

[HQRAZAHS]

Here is the screenshot as you requested

[HQRAZAHS]

@Trudy Claspill Any advise further please?

[Trudy Claspill]

Thank you for that additional information.

Based on the image you provided you are using a Team mananaged business project.

With such a project you board configuration options are limited.

There is not an option for a "Backlog" screen to which you can relegate the backlog items so that they don't disrupt the focus of the board view. A Backlog screen option is available in the boards used with Software projects.

You cannot remove the Backlog column from the board in these projects. The column is directly tied to the Status it displays. Removing the column means deleting the status from the workflow. In that case the issues have to be assigned to another status, so that does not solve your problem.

With a Team Managed Business project your only options are to collaps the column as suggested by @Valerie Knapp or use a filter to hide the issues.

You could consider setting up a separate project specifically to hold your Backlog issues. Moving the issues to that other project would hide them from this board. Your team would need to review the backlog in that other project. As items near the point at which they could become actionable, you could move them back into this project. That would reduce the number of issues shown in the Backlog of this project.

You could consider create a Software project, and moving all the issues to that project. With a Software project you can elect to use a Kanban board and enable a Backlog screen. The "backlog" issues are then displayed on the Backlog screen, reducing the number of issues visible on the board.

With a Team Managed Software project Kanban board you would still have a column for every status. Visibility of an issue in the columns of the Boards is determined by its presence in the Board list vs. the Backlog list on the Backlog screen.

With a Company Managed Software project Kanban board the visibility of an issue on the board is based on its Status. You decide which Statuses mean an issue is "in the backlog". Columns for those statuses are not shown on the board. To show an issue on the board you changes its status.

Moving issues to another project is something that should be carefully planned and tested in the small scale before making the decision to move all the issues. Links between parent Epics and child issues may be broken. If there is a mismatch in the available fields data loss may occur.