How To Create A Jira Filter That Shows Features With Related User Stories

How to Get Features (Epics) from Jira?

Get features, epics and related stories from Jira into Kendis

Written past Kendis Team
Updated over a week ago

At Kendis, getting your features or Epics or any other particular type that you use as "Parent" is uncomplicated.

Main concept: Kendis boards have "Parent" cards and linked "children".

What blazon of items I can get at Kendis?

Kendis has no restrictions on the item types, all your item types can be visible at the Kendis lath. e.g., for parent types, yous tin can use Jira Epics, custom types, like features, or any other detail type.

How to get Parent Items (Features) at Kendis?

To get multiple parent cards at Kendis board, there are 2 options

Using Jira Filters:
Include all your "Parent" detail types, in the filter, due east.g., if yous are using Epics as parents and desire to get them at Kendis, then only include "Epics" into the filters.
Note: Don't include user stories into the filter.

Using JQL:
At Kendis, can copy/paste JQL to become the parent items. Again, please make sure, you don't include child items into the JQL, it has to be only parent detail type, e.one thousand., Epics.

These options are available at "Settings --> Edit Board Settings --> Contents from Jira"
Additionally, when the board is empty, you see a push on the left console "Go Features from Jira" and if y'all click, it opens the same settings dialogue.

Detailed Steps

To get the features at that place are 3 steps you lot demand to practice

Item Type:
At Kendis you tin can create different carte du jour types, e.k., Features, Enablers, etc. At the time of getting parent cards, y'all can set the card type, so e.g., if you are getting all your enablers in 1 filter, and so you can select the enabler as the carte type. One time the board is populated with these parent items, all the cards that belong to this filter will have card type as "Enabler".
Filter/JQL:
Use filter or JQL with the parent items, east.g., Epics only
Children Link type
Kendis will fetch all the linked children to the parents. You lot can define, what type of linking are y'all using to link the parents and children in Jira.
For case, if you are using Epics in Jira so your stories (children), volition utilize the Epic link.
If you are using Jira Portfolio, then your features and stories would be linked through "Parent Link". Kendis besides supports all Jira link types that y'all have in your Jira instance.

Example Screen of using Jira Filter

Example Screen of using JQL

Filter/Search Effect view at Jira

Once you press Save, the items from Jira will exist fetched and populated at the board.

Of import

Team Stories linked to the Epics/Features will automatically be fetched based on the link type, filer/JQL should just accept the Epics/Features, equally shown in the example below. Check this article related to team stories.

FAQs

I only desire to have user stories at the Kendis board, we don't utilise any parent link types, is it possible
Kendis boards are ii-level boards, and you take to use parent and children. As explained in a higher place, parent tin be of whatever type and linking to children can be Ballsy link, Jira links or any other blazon.
I created a filter and only see parent cards, stories are non visible
Please brand sure, you take selected the correct link type betwixt parent and children items, east.g., if you are using Epic in Jira and then you should select "Ballsy Link" for children items.