Can't see Epics in epic panel in my Kanban board

[Gaurav Kaushik]

Hi Experts, I can't see epics in my epic panel. The stories are linked with the epic and I can see them on right hand side. I want to view the epic and associated stories and their count on the epic panel.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Gaurav Kaushik 

Welcome to the community.

Can you access the Board Settings (the ... button in the upper right corner), then select the General page, and scroll down that page to find the Filter Query information. Share the filter query with us. It is probably that the query is written in a way that is excluding the Epics from being included in the board. The filter query has to be written in a way to include the parent Epics of the issues in order for those Epics to be shown in the Epics panel.

[Gaurav Kaushik]

Thanks for your response. Here you go with the Filter query.

assignee in (s45010, s69308, s70063, s74424, s111754) AND project = Middleware AND (labels not in (timetracking) OR labels is EMPTY) AND (resolutiondate > -1w OR resolutiondate is EMPTY) ORDER BY key DESC, priority DESC, duedate ASC

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Gaurav Kaushik 

In order for Epics to be displayed in your board, each Epic would have to match the criteria in your filter, or the filter has to be adjusted to include the Epics criteria separately.

Jira doesn't natively have an option that would support you modifying the filter you have to additionally get the Epics related only to the issues you are displaying. But you could get all the Epics thus:

(<Your existing filter criteria>) OR (project=Middleware and issueType=Epic) ORDER BY key DESC, priority DESC, duedate ASC

There are also ways to build filters based on filters and to search for parent Epics of a set of child issues with some JQL extending third party apps. Do you have any such apps added to your instance?

[Gaurav Kaushik]

Thanks Trudy for explaining. The above query worked and I can see the epics in epic panel. Very happy.