We're updating our terminology in Jira

'Issue' is changing to 'work item'. You might notice some inconsistencies while this big change takes place.

Organize your list

  • Anyone with access to the business project can group work items

  • Your grouping will persist when when navigating between views and other business projects

You can group the list of work items in the All work view by certain attributes. Organize and visualize your work how you want to. For example, you can check high-priority tasks to see that nothing is blocked or see individual team members' workloads at a glance.

All users are in control of how they want to view their work – so how you group your list can only be seen by you. You can group your work by:

  • Assignee

  • Status

  • Priority

  • Category

  • Sprint

  • Story point

  • Story point estimate

When you sort, filter, or group your list, child work items will stay with their parent work items. The work type icons will be nested below each other, so you can clearly see how the work items relate to each other.

For example, if you group the list by assignee you’ll see each work item listed under the person it’s assigned to. Any child work items will be nested below their parent work item, even if they’re assigned to a different person.

This allows you easily keep track of the hierarchy and relationship between pieces of work, no matter how you organize your All work view.

Group your work items

To group the work items in the All work view, you can:

  1. Select the Group button at the top-right of the list

  2. Choose one attribute that you’d like to group your work items by. This can be either assignee, status, or priority. You can only select one.

  3. Your work items will then be grouped by your selection and will only be visible to you.

Drag and drop work items

Once you group your work items, you can drag and drop a work item from one group to another.

To drag and drop work items:

  1. Hover over the Type column for the work item you want to drag to see the icon.

  2. Hold and drag the work item to the assignee, category, or priority you want to move it to.

  3. Drop the work item.

The work item should now be assigned the attributes of the group it has been moved to.

You cannot drag and drop work items when grouped by Status.

Clear the group

To clear the grouping:

  1. Select the Group by drop-down at the top-right of the list.

  2. Select Clear.

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