Using Advanced Boards

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What each person sees

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

How your Jira permissions and your board role decide what you see and change, why two people can see different numbers, and where to read Permissions as of.

Reports and exports

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Find your forecast runs, backtests and exports in one list, download a file again, and see how long each result is kept.

Stakeholder views

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Publish a stakeholder view of a board for the people who follow its work, add them as recipients, and see what they get when they open it.

Hierarchy, priorities and planning settings

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

See how parents roll up their children, rank work items with a scoring model, and set the board's planning settings.

Timeline, milestones and dependencies

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Give work items planned dates, add release and sprint milestones, and find the ordering conflicts between linked work items.

Read a forecast result

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Read a forecast's dates or counts, check its warnings and method, and find, export and re-run saved runs.

Run a forecast

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Ask when a scope will finish or how much can finish by a date, choose the scope and the history, and check which work items are in.

Forecast, scenario and size messages

Last Updated: October 26, 2026

What the messages of forecasts, calibration, portfolios, scenarios, very large boards and AI investigation mean, and what to do.

Read the charts in Analyze

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

What each of the eight Analyze charts draws, what its colors and lines mean, and how to read the second picture on Cycle time and Cumulative flow.

Explain a number in Analyze

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Open the evidence behind any figure in Analyze: what it measures, its warnings, every work item and cycle behind it, and what was left out.

Flow metrics in Analyze

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Read cycle time, throughput, cumulative flow and five more flow metrics for a board, and open the work items behind any number.

Data as of, permissions and coverage

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Read the strip above a figure: when the data was taken, when your access was checked, and how much of the board the count covers.

Current risk signals

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

See which work is past its agreed expectation, over a limit, blocked or in a date conflict, with the measure behind each signal.

Backlog

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Rank, create and edit the work items waiting to be committed, in Jira's rank or by creation date.

Batch actions

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Select several work items on Work or Backlog and move, edit, rank or re-plan them together, with a verdict for each one before anything is written.

Move, edit and create work items

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Move a card with a preview, edit its fields, change its sprint, or create a work item or subtask from the Work board.

WIP policies and the numbers behind a limit

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Open WIP policies on Work to see each limit's state, what it counts and leaves out, the agreement behind it and every work item it counts.

Filter, search and views on Work

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Narrow the Work board with search and quick filters, choose how cards are drawn, pick a saved view and read more of the board.

The Work board

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Read your board by column and lane, see work in progress against its limits, and filter, search and save the views you use.

A board’s Overview

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

See what a board reads from Jira, how fresh its data is, what is configured on it and what needs attention, on one screen.

The Boards directory

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

Find any board you can see, check its state and counts, and configure, copy or delete it from its row.

Home

Last Updated: October 24, 2026

See which boards need attention, then go back to the board you were working on in one press.