How can I clone a board?

[Thomas Wrobel]

I did not find a way to clone a board in the new Jira. How can I do this?

[Thomas Wrobel · Accepted solution]

This is ridiculous. I used to work with copied boards a lot. Now in the new design, there seems to be no way to do this. Is there really no way to do this?

[Jack Brickey]

@Thomas Wrobel, we’re you not able to copy via the view all boards and selecting the board of your choice? To get to the view all boards you click on the magnifying glass (search).

[Thomas Wrobel]

Thanks, @Jack Brickey, you're a life saver. I must say, that under the magnifying glass is not the most obvious or intuitive places in my opinion. But now I have found "all boards", everything is fine. 

[Jack Brickey]

indeed. an example of why I moved to the old UI. I like the new UI in a lot of respects but I miss my menu bar. Part of this is because I was used to it but part because my common tasks are at my finger tips.

[Ryan Michel]

I agree, there should also be a "View all boards" from the Project page where the boards are listed as a dropdown in the individual project container boxes towards the top (i.e. the "View all boards" should show up as the last entry in the dropdown). I hunted all over and didn't think to find all board management in the Search context

[Damir Colak]

The new UI is plain sick. How in the world would you expect someone to find that option? :-) 

[Deleted user]

Where is this mythical "View all boards"?

[Jack Brickey]

@[deleted], if on cloud...

click magnifying glass and under the Recent Boards click "view all boards"

[Deleted user]

Where is "Recent Boards"?

Screen shot please!

[Jack Brickey]

Again, this only applies if you are using the new UI on Cloud. Clicking Magnifying Glass should yield something like this.

[Deleted user]

OOHHHHHH!!!!  Great. Thank you!

[Can Baysal]

Thanks a lot.... After playing some hide and seek :(

[Jason Rosen]

Wow... now that is some really poor UI design.

Come on Atlassian... you can do better than this! :(

[Johnny Lombardo]

just tried this.

fyi, the option is non-existant for "next-gen" boards even in the "all boards" view

[AARON PALAZON BARBER]

thank you!! i have 24 filters in my board!! you save my time!!

[Sachin]

To copy a board

1. goto https://yoursite-here.net/jira/boards

2.  click ... (ellipisis) and choose copy from the dropdown

3. you should now see your copied board in your project.

[Harry Slaughter]

Thank you for this.

In the current UI if you go to dashboard / view all dashboards it takes you to /jira/dashboards, which does NOT show all the boards.

When I go to /jira/boards, I see a smaller list of dashboards that includes those hidden in the first link.

Blech.

[erica.low]

So helpful -- thank you!!

[Jack Brickey]

I have recently switched back to the old UI but believe if you go to view all boards page you can click on the elipses to the right of the board you wish to copy.

[Steven]

I found this link that allows you to clone "copy" and board and all its columns. etc.

https://worldplaydev.atlassian.net/secure/ManageRapidViews.jspa

[Johnny Lombardo]

Hi, 

We need to "Request Access" to that link, yet the "Request Access" feature is currently broken/unavailable.

Help?

[Nathan Briggs]

Followed all this and the 3 little dots to copy are missing on next-gen projects still there on kanban and scrum wtf Atlassian?

[Johnny Lombardo]

yup

[Yannick Hoffmann]

Yes, I would also need to copy Next-Gen boards

[Christine Saxon]

Thanks Jack- you sir are a life saver, many thanks!

[Gavin McMurdo]

@Atlasssian - can we get a response for this question please? It has been almost a year.

without this feature - it pretty much makes Jira unusable for me

[Jack Brickey]

@Gavin McMurdo, while i'm not an Atlassian I can try to assist.

What are you looking for here? The original post was about how to copy a board which has been answered? Is that what you are looking for or something else? If something else I would encourage you to create a new question if an answer does not exist. 

[Romain]

Found it, thanks !

[Jack Brickey]

@Romain , this really should be a new question as it seems different. That said....

• first understand that boards are just visual representations of issues in one or more projects they do not define the workflows.
• if you have a new project and you are looking to create a board that looks/behaves similar to an existing board you can certainly copy the other one, edit the filter to associate to the new project and then tweak from there. The key here is you must edit the new boards filter because it is associated w/ the old project(s) and that is why you will see issues from that project.
• If you want to extend the same workflow from one project to another that is a different matter. You can make a copy of the workflow which will go into the Inactive workflows. Here you can then edit them to be precisely what you want and then in the new project associate that workflow w/ the desired Issuetypes.

Maybe i'm not understanding your question/issue?

[Romain]

Sorry I edited my question at the same time you answered. I did not think you would be so fast ! :)

So I repeat it here so that people understand your answer :

I actually want to create a new project but I want to copy all the parameters of the board of my previous project (type of issues, fields, workflow, columns etc.). I tried with the method described above but it copied all the tickets as well, when I actually want a blank board.

So thank you for your answer, I start to understand the concept of the board which is just the view. I am going to try what you described. 

Many thanks,

[Jack Brickey]

got it. So you really want to clone a project not a board. there are some good threads on this in the Community so I would suggest using the search bar. There isn't a clone per se but there are things you can do to reuse aspects of your old project: schemes, workflows, etc. 

[Thomas Wrobel]

Thanks for the feedback. It just seems that with the "new" Jira there is no "Boards" drop down anymore. 

[Tarun Sapra]

You can copy a board in JIRA. From the "boards" drop down you can click on "View all boards" and from there when you see the list of boards then you can click on the options available for the board and copy the board.

[Deleted user]

Where is this "Boards" drop-down? I don't see it!

[Jack Brickey]

@[deleted], the drop down exists for server but not cloud. At least it used to be on Server so assume it is still there. :-)

[Deleted user]

Okay, so cloud we can not view all boards, clone boards, etc?

[Mardee Brosh]

Hi @[deleted], you can clone boards but the navigation is different in Cloud. Click on the magnifying glass icon in the blue nav bar on the left, then select "View all boards."  From there, you can select the board you want to copy. As other mentioned above, it's less than intuitive but at least the feature is still there.

[Johnny Lombardo]

fyi, the option is non-existant for "next-gen" boards even in the "all boards" view