Is it possible to add a custom field to the Kanban Board top menu?

[John Ricard]

The Kanban Board has a menu at the top

and the ... has the ability to hide or show menus. 

I would like to add a custom field to the Kanban Board menu.  I created the custom field and now I am looking for a way to make it part of the Kanban Board menu. 

Does any one know if this is possible and how to do it?

[Benjamin · Accepted solution]

HI @John Ricard ,

You can't add custom field to the kanban board menu. Custom fields are for the issue themselves. You can add it to the cards or search it as a quick filter on a board.

Thanks,

Ben

[John Ricard]

@Benjamin 

Thank for letting me know this.

I will try to display the custom field's value in a quick filter.

Much appreciated

[John Ricard]

@Benjamin 

How do I create a filter JQL query to display the value of a custom field?

e.g. the custom field is "Remaining Total" and I want to display the value of this field which represents the total for all the custom issue field "Remaining Estimate" for all the issues in a project.

( "Remaining Total" is equal to {{ lookupIssues.Remaining Estimate.sum }} )

Any thoughts?

[Benjamin]

@John Ricard : For this use case, wouldn't quite fit for a kanban board. The Kanban board is mainly to track tickets and the flow.

I've only seen this applied to e-mail templates using the lookup issues. So, I'm not sure this can work the way you intend for Jira Cloud.

Here's an article how lookup issue I've seen used:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/New-automation-smart-values-in-Jira-Cloud/ba-p/1402775

Thanks,

Ben