How can I create a custom filter in my Jira Work Management Board?
Asked by Oguzhan Esen:

Dear community,

I need help with creating a custom filter for my Jira Work Management Board.

At the moment, Jira itself has predefined some fields that I could filter by. Also, Quick Filters are already predefined for me, so I can't customize them. However, I would like to define new quick filters for myself so that I can filter by custom fields.

How can I do this? I have not found a direct solution to this after my research both in the software itself and in other blog posts.

Thank you very much.

Best regards from Germany


Answers:
author: Annie _DevSamurai
body: Hi [@Oguzhan Esen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5433224)

Welcome to the community.

Creating custom Quick Filters in Jira Work Management (JWM) is a bit different from Jira Software. Unfortunately, JWM doesn't currently allow you to create or customize Quick Filters directly like you can in Jira Software.

However, there's a workaround you can try:

1. Choose your project.
2. Click on "**Issues**" in the navigation.
3. Use the advanced search with custom JQL to create a filter based on your custom fields.
4. Save the filter, and you can use this saved view whenever you need it.

![Screenshot 2024-07-18 at 10.54.45.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/343196i81B882B1B95AA2FA/image-dimensions/503x231?v=v2 "Screenshot 2024-07-18 at 10.54.45.png")

I hope this may help.

comments: author: Oguzhan Esen
body: Hi [@Annie _DevSamurai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5416526) ,

thank you for your answer.

Really appreciate this workaround. However, I am missing the Board-View here.

Do you have an idea, how Jira decides, which custom fields are shown in this "Filter" in the Board-view? It only shows me these 2, although I have many other custom fields in this project.

Thanks in advance.

![Screenshot 2024-08-22 114138.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/343199i728A4A3177B74854/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2024-08-22 114138.png")


author: Annie _DevSamurai
body: Hey [@Oguzhan Esen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5433224)

Jira decides which custom fields appear in the "Filter" on the Board view based on:

* **Field Context:** The custom field must be configured for your board's specific project/issue types.
* **Board Settings:** Some fields may be hidden based on the board's filter or configuration settings.

Here's my suggestion I hope may help:

1. **Check Field Context:** Go to **Jira Administration** \> **Issues** \> **Custom Fields** \> Find the custom field you want to check \> Modify the context if needed.
2. **Review Board Settings:** Check the board settings to see if any configurations hide fields.


author: Muhammad Moazzam Hassan
body: Hi,  

Go to the board and filter the issues by using the given options then you can view the save filter option and save the filter.  

PFA   

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/343189iCD3355DE929FCF6E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")  

comments: author: Oguzhan Esen
body: Hi Muhammad,

thanks for your answer.

With your method, I can only create custom filters based on the aspects, Jira shows me. The challenge is, that Jira does not show me the custom fields I need for my filter.

It only shows me these 2:

![Screenshot 2024-08-22 114138.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/343190iA7D7DF12C9B76406/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2024-08-22 114138.png")

How can I add other custom fields here?


author: Muhammad Moazzam Hassan
body: Yes,  

You are right there is no other custom field available. Looks ridiculous.


author: Oguzhan Esen
body: Did you experience the same problem? That's really annoying that I cannot add other custom fields..


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