project board that excludes one Epic

[Scott Thurston]

I would like to exclude all the issues of just one epic from a project board.  The board has a filter for everything in that project key.  I attempted to add a quick filter that only included items where the epic name != "xyz_epic".  This resulted in NO items returned.  I tried using epic link as well. same thing.     How can I get all the issues not part of the xyz_epic?  Note: there are also issues without any epic at all.

[Inactive Stephen]

Hi @Scott Thurston

If your quick filter needs to visualise all issues not in Epic A, you need to consider both other Epics and no Epics - so the query might look like this:

"Epic Link" != A or "Epic Link" is empty

^ The reason you need both is because searching for issues where the Epic Link is not equal to Epic A means Jira is looking for another value in the field - not empty values. The additional parameters allows for a more rounded search.

Ste

[Aleksey Chemakin]

Does this mean that Jira treats any "A != B" expression as "A is not EMPTY and A != B" ?
Also for me "Epic Link" != Epic-Key hides not only issues where Epic Link field is empty, but also some issues where "Epic Link" has value (not Epic-Key). And I can not understand why.

[Jack Brickey]

if you want to be able to hide/unhide these issue use a quick filter - "epic link" != "my epic link"

If you want to never include on a board the ad the above into the board's filter

[Aleksey Chemakin]

This does not work for me.
But Ste's answer does.

[Jack Brickey]

For clarity sake...

The right answer depends on your exact requirement.

Include all issues except those associated with a certain epic (example...my-epic)

"Epic link" != "my-epic"

this will return all issues that have an epic link other than "my–epic" and any issue that has no epic link.

Include all issues associated to an epic except those associated with a certain epic (example...my-epic)

"Epic Link" != A or "Epic Link" is empty

this will exclude any issue that is part of "my-epic" and any issue not associated with any epic.