Flagged issues do not get marked as flagged in JIRA Agile boards

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Summary

Problem

When flagging an issue, the Flagged issues do not get marked as flagged in JIRA Agile boards. Looking into issue view page, the flagged field has impediment value, which is supposed to be marked as flagged in the board.

Diagnosis

When clicking on the issue (on the board), the response is the following

1 http://localhost:8080/rest/dev-status/1.0/issue/summary?issueId=undefined&_=1444309222585

Cause

In the field configuration for flagged field, the Search Template is set to None.

Solution

Resolution

  1. Go to *Custom field* page (type g + g + custom field

  2. Refer to *flagged* field

  3. Refer to the _cog_ icon > Edit

  4. Refer to *Search Template* > choose *Multi Select Searcher* > click *Update*

  5. Perform full reindexing

Updated on April 2, 2025

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