Huge kanban release (650 tasks) fails

[Volker Hetzer]

Hi!

We are switching from scrum to kanban.

Now, unfortunately, all tasks we have finished before, show up as unreleased in the kanban board.

Just clicking "Release..." fails with a timeout.

Is there anything we can do to pack those tasks away from the kanban board and mark them as released?

[J. Caldwell]

What version of JIRA are you using, what version of Agile are you using? What kind of time out? can you attach the timeout error? If it is fronted by a webserver, the timeout could be there. 

[Isaac Trumbo]

I think the workaround which uses Issue Navigator is:

- Go to Issues > Search for Issues

- Search "project = ____ AND fixVersion is EMPTY AND resolution = Done"

- Tools > Bulk edit issue (You probably have a limit of 1000 issues at a time).

- Select the issues, Next.

- Edit issues.

- Change Fix Version/s field to the Release you want. 

- Scroll to the bottom and uncheck "Send mail for this update" and click Next.

This will do the same thing as "Releasing" off the Kanban board and avoid the time outs. It worked for me, I myself had 2150 issues to release off a single Kanban board and used this workaround.

[Deleted user]

Hi, I am also having this issue. We get a timeout error when I try to release the 600 tickets in the "done" column in our Kanban. I changed the version number after the popup said the version I wanted to use already existed, but the column did not update to make the "done" tickets go away on the board. We are using JIRA cloud and its version 6.5-OD-03-002.

I'm guessing I'm probably not doing something right so any help would be appreciated!

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[Volker Hetzer]

Sorry for the delay, we got it solved using the issue navigator.

[Jason Mintz]

Hi Volker, how were you able to solve this using the issue navigator? I'm having the same issue.

[Eric Hartford]

Please help, same issue

[Bess Ton]

I am experiencing the same issue, how were you able to use the issue navigator to resolve the time out release in kanban?

[Phil Herold]

I'm having the same issue. Is there a solution or work-around?

[Gaven Ray]

Please update on how you were able to solve this. We are having the same issue.