Projects in Board on board settings page

[Steve Wright]

When I look at the Board Settings (kanban board) for one of my boards I see an item titled "Projects in board" and it has a value of "This board contains 61 projects".

The board only shows 14 projects though.

I am concerned my query is working too hard.

"Team[Team]" = 5 
AND (resolution = EMPTY OR resolution != EMPTY AND resolutiondate > startOfWeek(-4)) 
AND type not in (subTaskIssueTypes()) 
AND type != Epic 
AND status in ("To Do", "In Progress", "In Review", Blocked, Done) 
AND fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() 
ORDER BY project ASC

The purpose of this board is to track the work the team is doing for the current iteration. This why I am doing each part of this query:

1. Restricts the issues to ones assigned to this Shared Team
2. Don't include Done issues older than 3 weeks plus elapsed days this week. I do this because the dropdown on the Board Setting page for this seems to have no effect.
3. I dont want to see sub-tasks
4. I dont want see to epics
5. I am only interested in the statuses listed
6. The issue must not already be released.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Steve Wright 

If you don't explicitly include criteria to limit the projects that will be searched for issues, then Jira will search all projects in your instance to determine if they contain issues that match the criteria. Even if they don't contain matching issues, they are considered "in" your board because they are not explicitly excluded from your board.

If you know there are only 14 specific projects that are expected to have issues that match your criteria, then you can add a criteria to say "projects in (<csv list of projects>)" to constrain the filter to looking in only those 14 projects.

[Steve Wright]

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate it.