What is the best way to handle future tasks in jira?

[Martin Pastírik]

Hi,

I was wondering what would be the best way to add a task that will not be relevant for quite some time in a way where it will not be showing up everywhere until it is due?

For example I need to schedule a certificate update in a few years from now, but I do not want to see the issue until it starts to become relevant.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Interesting question. I would do one of two things:

• create a future tasks project in place of issues in there that you don’t wish to see. Then I would use automation or some scripting to monitor the due date and move to the appropriate project once it’s time.
• create a unique status “future” in your current project. Configure all boards and filters to exclude this status. Again use Automation to move the issue to a new status like To Do when appropriate.

[Martin Pastírik]

Thank you for the suggestion, I was hopping to find a simpler solution. Currently I am leaning to just making a done task and put a team meeting in the calendar with reference to the task. I really do not want to have to modify all the filters.

[Dario]

Being able to schedule tasks so that a certain date is assigned to the person in charge of carrying them out would be a nice and useful feature.

[pjakovich]

This is something we have struggled with as well. We also haven't found an elegant solution. For the time being, we have a sprint where we stash future tasks 😬 So they are at least out of the way.