Configure and Manage a Board

From the Board menu, you can select options to configure, duplicate, and delete the board. From the Configure Board page, you can edit and update the name, description, associated issue search query, and estimation criterion of a board.

Action How To

Edit a board’s name and description

  1. From the Board drop-down list, select Configure.

  2. In the General tab, in Name and Description, update the values.

  3. Click Save.

Edit the board’s search query and estimation

  1. From the Board drop-down list, select Configure.

  2. In the General tab, in Search select the search query. In Estimation, enter the new estimation value.

  3. Click Save.

Enable or disable time tracking

If the time tracking is enabled, then the Active Sprints page shows the estimation in Remaining Days only. The Backlog page shows the estimation in Remaining Days if estimation metric is Estimated Days.

If the time tracking is disabled, then the Backlog, Active Sprints and Reports pages show the chosen metric for Estimation (estimated days or story points) instead of Remaining Days and Time Spent.

  1. From the Board drop-down list, select Configure.

  2. In the General tab, in Time Tracking, select On or Off to enable or disable time tracking.

  3. Click Save.

Create a copy of a board

To create another board with similar properties of an existing board that you can access, instead of creating a new board and manually copying properties, you can create a copy of the board. The copied board has properties include time tracking, progress states, and working days.

  1. From the Board drop-down list, select Copy Board.

  2. In the Copy Board dialog box, click Copy.

Delete a board

You can’t delete a Scrum board with active sprints. You must complete the active sprints before you delete the board. You can delete a Kanban board with active issues or archives. All issues of the deleted board are returned to the backlog.

  1. From the Board drop-down list, select Delete Board.

  2. In the Delete Agile Board dialog box, select the I understand that my agile board will be permanently deleted check box and click Delete.