how to filter epics on agile board

[Andres Velasco]

I want to be able to hide closed epics when I am on the Agile Board view, I want to see only the open epics so i can take care of them and forget about the ones that were already closed. Right now we have closed many of them and they are still there difficulting the manouver with the open ones.

[Ram Muthiah · Accepted solution]

Click the down arrow next to epic and select "Mark as done". That should hide the epic in the board view.

You may get the error message which is totally meaningless. If that happens, check if the epic is "closed" instead of "resolved". If closed, reopen the epic, resolve it, then "mark as done", then close it.

[Andres Velasco]

I was able to mark the epic as done, but it is not working for other issues they get a "you don't have permissions" message even tough they are the owners of the agile board, do you have which permission should they have to accomplish this?

[Andres Velasco]

Nevermind I figured out the issue, our Epics were closed that's why we were getting that error (error message was not too descriptive as you already notice).

[Ryan Flores]

It seems rather *redundant* in my opinion to have to click *Mark As Done*. The reason why I say this is because if I mark an Epic as done using the Agile Board, I would expect the Epic's status to change to either Done or Closed. However, that does not happen. I still have to go and close the Epic. The inverse is true as well as described by the OP.

[Lars Sundell]

This kind of works, but it is a failed implementation in my view. If an Epic is closed you cannot use the feature unless you reopen, click "mark as done" and then manually close the epic again. That is just to much work, and what you actually are doing are the same thing twice which is waste. What we need is that the board ether has a configuration setting to hide closed epics, or that it honors a filter of this type " ... (issuetype = epic AND resolution != Unresolved). Another alternative could be to use a post function to set the epic status to Done which is what I suspect is happening when you click the mark epic as done. Unfortunately the selection of fields you can update with a post function is lacking to say it mildly and Epic status is not on the list.

[Prem Chudzinski _extensi_]

@Andres Velasco

Soon will be releasing a new version of the Agile Board FIlter which will include new filters

• Uncompleted
• Unestimated

[Fred Ausseur]

@Prem Chudzinski _extensi_  Sorry if I dig up an old string of messages...

Is there a way to add some sort of quick filter to the epics ? I manage a backlog that gathers several project. I want to filter the epics by projects... is that possible ? thx

[John Garcia]

A better way is to link the Epic Status to the Workflow Status, as done in HowTo: Track Epics on the Control Chart. That way, you just transition them like Issues and the Epic Status just works. Also, this means you can look at them on the Control Chart etc.

[Lars Sundell]

I am unable to follow this guide. I hit a hurdle in stem 13. The post function mentioned (Update Issue Custom Field) is not abailable in out JIRA version (7.3.1, hosted). Is there any setting/config that needs to be done to make it available?

[Andres Velasco]

Mark as done worked perfectly, thanks!

[C_ Faysal]

Did you try quickfilters?

[Andres Velasco]

Thanks but quickfilters only works on issues not Epics

[C_ Faysal]

Exactly. Sry i missed the content somehow