how to I find all issues in an agile board using JQL?

[Ceava Potter]

I have multiple Scrum and Kanban boards, some based on projects and some on filters across multiple projects or   filtered by project components.

Is there a jql query to filter issues on an agile board? (something like: agile board = BoardID/BoardName)

[Doug Swartz · Accepted solution]

As noted by others, Agile Boards are driven by saved filters. If you want to get all the issues on multiple boards in a single JQL query, use the filter in clause.

filter in ("15.1 - team 1", "15.1 Defects") will retrieve all the issues selected by both filters.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Nope. You have to go to the board to find the filter and view the filter. Good idea though.

[Ceava Potter]

I am trying to create reports across multiple boards, which is why I need a filter, rather than just checking an individual board. 

Any suggestions?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Driving it from the boards is not really possible because it's a bit of a cack-handed approach - everything in Jira runs off "find me an issue", not reports. The closest you'll get without code is what Doug says - find all the filters you are interested in, and use "filter in" to combine them. That's better than building a new filter that includes all the filters the boards are using at the moment because it will still work if someone edits a board filter. However, a better approach would be to stop thinking in terms of boards, and think about what really unites all the issues you're interested in. A common one I've found is actually "category" - running a filter for "all issues in the financial development category" will include all the financial development issues, including the ones the developers are ignoring because they've got their board filter wrong!

[Ceava Potter]

Thanks, this is helpful. We use category already, but there are still cases where a backlog contains issues from many projects across different categories.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's kind of a recursive query.  A board is built on a query, so "jql to filter issues on a board" really resolves back to "run the filter the board is already using"

The filters on boards are all saved filters - you should simply be able to find (and hence run them) from the list of all filters available.  Or go to a board and drill down into the filter it is using.