Multiple projects on a board

[Melissa Koehn]

We have been using Jira for many years and loved how it used to work for us. We are  a small company, so we are working on many different issues, from many different projects, each sprint. In the past, we could easily have all these projects on our one single board. This made it super easy to track velocity for our group each sprint. Now, when we create a new project, it creates a new board, instead of using the one board we use. Having boards assigned to projects just does not work for us at all. We need to have projects assigned to the board.

How can we have multiple projects on one board? It is hard to track velocity when everything is separated onto separate boards. Please help!!

[LarryBrock · Accepted solution]

Hello @Melissa Koehn and welcome to the community!

It's easy to add a new project to an existing board, all one has to do is edit the filter that is the basis for the board. 

1. Click the "Board" button to open the Configuration screen
2. Select the "General" menu option on the left-hand menu if not alredy selected
3. Find the "Saved Filter" section and click the "Edit Filter Query" link. (May want to open a new tab instead of navigating away from the board config screen.)
4. Edit the filter to include the new project and press enter to insure issues from the new project show up
5. Save the filter (very important :-) )

Refresh your view of the board - issues from the new project should now appear.

This is pretty concise so here's a link to official Jira documentation on the topic

Hope this answers your question - if so, please click the green "Accept Answer" button so others see it in their search results.  Thanks!

~~Larry Brock

[Melissa Koehn]

thank you

[Jack Brickey]

Likely you are selecting Next-gen as your project template when creating new projects. NG boards don't (currently) support multiple projects. However, you should be able to create an independent Kanban/Scrum board and include multiple projects. The one thing you will need to do is set the Location to your profile. If desired you can us Add item to add a link on any/all individual projects to this combines board.

let me know if I have missed the mark on your question.

[Carlota Vendrell]

Hi @Jack Brickey

I've created a project with a Kanban Board (not Next-Gen) and I do not know how to create multiple boards in the same project without duplicate the information in the boards. When I create an issue in the Board1, it appears also in Board2. What can I do? Show me please, step-by-step! I'm new here :)

Thank you :)

[Jack Brickey]

@Carlota Vendrell, welcome to the community. This feels like a new question, unrelated to the original. With that said, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? The reason an issue would appear on multiple boards is that the filters defining the boards overlap. Boards are simply visual representations of filtered queries of your data. If you go to Board settings > General you will find the filter that defines the board. You can then edit the filter to represent whatever you want to include and/or exclude. A good way to play with this is to create the filter in the Search view and get it where you want it then save and associate to the board. 

[MS]

@Jack Brickey Hi, so its possible to make an Kanban Board with different projects but a Scrum (and sprints) are possible also?

[Jack Brickey]

yes absolutely.

[Warren]

Hi Melissa

All you need to do is to edit the filter from your original board and add in the new project. So your current board filter looks like

project=ABC AND project=DEF ...

or 

project in (ABC, DEF) ...

So now you need

project in (ABC, DEF, GHI) ...

where GHI represents the new project