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The Planning Board is a view of the JIRA issues assigned to a particular project that helps you track the progress of the project. Issues are represented as cards, colour-coded according to issue type (e.g. Story, Bug, Task, Improvement, etc) in the default view. Version, component and assignee information is summarised in panels on the Planning Board as well, allowing you to quickly gauge the sprint backlogs and product backlog.

You can also manage issues via the Planning Board. Issues can be easily scheduled and prioritised by dragging and dropping them. Links are also available to common JIRA tasks, like adding, updating and deleting issues.

To view the planning board for your project,

  1. Log into JIRA.
  2. Click the 'Agile' menu in the top navigation bar and select 'Planning Board' from the dropdown that displays. The 'Planning Board' will display.
  3. Select your project from the project dropdown in the top left of the planning board (next to 'PLANNING BOARD'), if it is not already selected. The 'Planning Board' will refresh with information for your project.

Screenshot: GreenHopper Planning Board (click to view larger image)

The screenshot above shows an example Planning Board. To learn more about each part of the planning board, please see the sections below and the documentation linked from those sections.

Planning Board — Navigation Bar

 


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1. 'New card' — Click to create a new card (i.e. issue).
2. 'Hide Sub-tasks' — Click to hide sub-tasks from your planning board.
3. Project dropdown — Select the project to view in your planning board.
4. Viewing Mode dropdown — Select the viewing mode for your planning board. Read more about viewing modes in Using Planning Board Modes to View Issues.
5. Viewing Mode sub-dropdown — Select the sub-category of the viewing mode for your planning board. Read more about viewing modes in Using Planning Board Modes to View Issues.
6. Favourite — Click the star icon to choose the selected project as a favourite.
7. 'Context' — Select the issues context from the dropdown. Click the 'New' link to create a new context. Read more about contexts in Using Contexts to Filter and Highlight Issues.
8. 'My Issues' — Check this checkbox to filter the planning board for issues that are assigned to you only.
9. Board search — Find an issue on your planning board by entering your search criteria and pressing the Enter key on your keyboard.
10. 'Views' menu — Click to display the issue views and click the desired issue view in the menu. Read more about issue views in Viewing Issues in GreenHopper.
11. 'Tools' menu — Click to display the options listed below and click the desired option:

Planning Board — Issues

 


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12. Issue type of your issue, e.g. Task, Bug, Improvement, etc.
13. Issue key of your issue — Click to view the details for this issue.
14. Add sub-tasks — Click this icon to add a sub-task to your issue (sub-tasks must be enabled).
15. Edit issue — Click to edit this issue.

Planning Board — Project Overview/Versions/Components/Assignees

 


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The boxes in this column will change depending on the viewing mode selected (see point 5 above). The image above shows an example of the 'Version' viewing mode. Read more about about viewing modes on Using Planning Board Modes to View Issues.
16. 'Manage' — Click to manage the project, users, components or versions.
17. 'Stats' — Click to configure statistics displayed in the boxes in this column. Read more in Viewing and Configuring Statistics via your Planning Board.
18. ('Version', 'Component', 'Project Overview' modes only) Name — Click the icon to edit the project, version or component name.
19. ('Version' mode only) Progress of the version — the green bar indicates the percentage of issues that are complete, the yellow bar indicates the percentage of issues in progress, the red bar indicates the percentage of issues that have not been started. Hover over the bar to see the exact percentages.
20. ('Version' mode only) Navigator View/Task Board/Chart Board —

21. ('Version' & 'Component' modes only) 'Master' — Click the icon to choose the master version for the version. All issues under the version will also be a subset of the master version, e.g. 'Version 1' could be set as the master version of 'Version 1 milestone 1'.
22. ('Version' mode only) 'Release — Click to release the version.

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