Viewing swimlanes on a Kanban board when filtering by specific epics within the project

[David Hazeel]

Hi,

I have a project on Jira cloud that uses multiple epics across multiple boards.

One of these boards is a Kanban board where I would like to base the swimlanes on epics. However I only want the board itself to display 2 issue types (pages and stories) and 3 of the various epics in the overall project. The current query is:

project = LMREU AND issuetype in (Epic, Page, Story) AND "Epic Link" in (LMREU-3, LMREU-769, LMREU-115) ORDER BY priority DESC, updated DESC

LMREU 3, 769 and 115 being the 3 epics in question.

This query only displays the issue types 'page' and 'story' from the 3 epics. So far, so good.

However when I base swimlanes on epics, all the issues on the Kanban board disappear. I've seen the question on here several times but not in a query that is specify particular epics.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

[Tarun Sapra · Accepted solution]

Hello @David Hazeel

Please change your query to below and then you will see the epics as well as the pages and stories

("Epic Link" in (LMREU-3, LMREU-769, LMREU-115) or issuekey in (LMREU-3, LMREU-769, LMREU-115)) and issuetype in (Epic, Page, Story) 

 And then you can groupBy Epic as well. Currently your filter is incorrect as it's not fetching the epics.

[David Hazeel]

Thank you very much - this has worked perfectly!

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_ · Accepted solution]

Hello David,

please try with Epic Name in your board filter.

Epic Name vs Epic Link

[David Hazeel]

Thank you for getting back with an answer - however I can't get the filter to return any results when replacing epic link with epic name. If possible, could you please give an example of how you would phrase the query using epic name?

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_]

Hi David,

I think your current filter doesn't show the Epics. Try to change your Board filter in the Issue Navigator and see if it also returns the relevant Epics.

Something like this might work:

project = XYZ AND issuetype in (Task, Epic) OR ( issuetype in (Task) AND "Epic Name" = "An Epic Name")

[David Hazeel]

Thank you very much - this has also worked. Much appreciated.