Check which Board type is Scrum and Kanban in Jira

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Summary

How to check which Board type is Scrum and Kanban in Jira? There are couple ways to determine this.

Environment

Jira Server / Data Center

Solution

JIRA UI

From JIRA UI, you may acces:

  • JIRA_URL/secure/ManageRapidViews.jspa > Filter by Board type

  • From the TOP Menu: Boards > View all boards > Filter by Board type

Rest API

You can retrieve this by going on the Browser and entering the following URLs:

  • JIRA_URL/rest/agile/1.0/board ( It will retrieve all the boards on the instance, you can check the field "type:" )

  • JIRA_URL/rest/agile/1.0/board?type=kanban ( It will filter and retrieve all boards of KANBAN type only )

  • JIRA_URL/rest/agile/1.0/board?type=scrum ( It will filter and retrieve all boards of SCRUM type only )

Database

  • The table in the database responsible to stored the board data is AO_60DB71_RAPIDVIEW.

  • All Scrum board have this flag enabled "SPRINTS_ENABLED" = 'true'

  • All Kanban boards have this flag disabled "SPRINTS_ENABLED" = 'false'

To retrieve all Scrum Boards

1 select * from "AO_60DB71_RAPIDVIEW" where "SPRINTS_ENABLED" = 'true'

To retrieve all Kanban Boards

1 select * from "AO_60DB71_RAPIDVIEW" where "SPRINTS_ENABLED" = 'false'

Updated on March 13, 2025

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