Using the Rapid Board

See http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-2999

The GreenHopper Rapid Board is a GreenHopper Labs feature that:

• Provides teams employing Kanban with an alternative approach to working with JIRA issues.
• Provides visibility on the progress of issues selected from saved JIRA filters.
• Shows the status of all issues from a JIRA filter at a glance, as well as transition these issues through a workflow by simply dragging and dropping them across columns.

On this page:

Accessing the Rapid Board

To access the Rapid Board:

1. Log in to JIRA.
2. Click the 'Agile' link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar and select 'Rapid Board' from the resulting dropdown menu. The 'Rapid Board' will be displayed.
   If you do not see the 'Rapid Board' option from this dropdown menu, ask your JIRA administrator to ensure that the 'Rapid Board' feature in GreenHopper Labs has been activated.

Screenshot: The GreenHopper Rapid Board (click to view larger image)

The screenshot above shows an example Rapid Board. To learn more about how to use the Rapid Board, please see the sections below and the documentation linked from those sections.

GreenHopper will respect your workflows and will trigger all your workflow validations, conditions, functions and notifications on the transitions. Make sure you read the transition Card section also to see what is possible to do while transitioning issues on the GreenHopper Rapid Board.

Rapid Board — Navigation Area

1. Rapid View dropdown — Select a Rapid View to show issues associated with its JIRA filter below.
   If you do not see any Rapid Views in this dropdown, create one using the adjacent link on the right.
2. 'New Rapid View' — Click the 'New Rapid View' link to create a new Rapid View.
   You must have at least one saved JIRA filter you can access to create a new Rapid View. If not, create and save a new filter in JIRA.

It is currently not possible to remove a Rapid View once it has been created.

Using the 'New Rapid View' Dialog Box

1. Open the 'New Rapid View' dialog box by clicking the 'New Rapid View' link.
2. Specify the following fields:
   • 'Rapid View Name' — Enter the name of the Rapid View as it will appear in the 'Rapid View dropdown'.
   • 'Saved Filter' — Select the JIRA filter used by this Rapid View.
   • 'Shares' — What's this used for?
3. Click 'View in JIRA' to view the selected JIRA filter in a new browser tab?
4. Click the 'Create' button to create the Rapid View.

Transitioning Issues on the Rapid Board

To transition an issue on the Rapid Board: