Managing Groups

A Group is composed from a set of issues. Groups are used as containers for issues you want to manage and track together. You can set new groups, change groups names etc. When you start using Quick View for the first time for a board, you will see a single default group named Quick View Backlog. By default, group issues are displayed with their issue Key and issue Summary. When you click on the issue key, the Jira issue view screen is opened, and you can view and edit all the issue details as usual.

Once you create more of your own groups (see below), you can simply drag issues from the backlog group into any group.

Note: Issues are associated to groups using Jira labels. A special group label is added to all issues linked to it. E.g., “This Week” group , will create a label “Groupby-This-Week” in all associated issues.

Creating a New Group

Pressing on the New Group button triggers a popup that asks you for the new group name.

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Once you enter the name and click Create, the group will appear as the top group in the page. Note that the group is empty of issues.

You can drag issues in from the backlog group, or even create new issues by clicking the +Add link below the group. You can add any number issues to a group. Issue order within the group can changed by drag and drop.

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The group view is collapsed. To expand it and see its issue click on the > link to the left of the group name, Note the issue counters at the bottom of the group. The display the total issues in the group, and the number of not-started, in-progress and completed issues.

Subtask View

The Subtask View at the top of the screen, shows subtask under their parent issues in the group list.

Changing a Group Color

Clicking the three dots left of the group name opens a group menu.

Clicking Change Color from the group menu allows you to select a color from the pallet opened.

The color chosen is then used in the group title and left border.

Changing a Group Title

Clicking Change Title from the group menu will open a popup screen with the group name to be edited. Click the checkmark button in order to apply the new name.

Note: All the issues connected to this group will change the label to represent the new group name.

Deleting a Group

Clicking Delete Group will delete the group, and unlink all the relevant issues from it (removing the label from the issue).