How do I remove an completed epic from Epic panel on backlog?
Asked by Mark Brierley:

I've updated the "status" of the epic to be "done", but it has not fallen off my backlog's epic panel (weirdly, I thought it HAD fallen off previously, but is suddenly back.... bug?...).

I see other posts about this, but they aren't helpful since they all reference changing the "epic status" field to "done", but I don't see that anywhere... not in the epic details on the backlog, not in the epic details when I bring up the full page epic, and not in the configuration settings for epics.


Answers:
author: Curt Holley
body: Hi [@Mark Brierley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4446288)

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

I just do a filter like this

project = XX AND (type != Epic or type = Epic AND status != Done) ORDER BY Rank ASC

But....this is a way of syncing the issue status (in the workflow) with the Epic status: [Linking Epic Status to the Epic Issue Status \| Jira \| Atlassian Documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/linking-epic-status-to-the-epic-issue-status-881516333.html)

But you still need a very similar filter:

project = XX AND (type != Epic or type = Epic AND "Epic Status" != Done) ORDER BY Rank ASC

comments: author: Mark Brierley
body: That seems ***supremely*** over-complicated to change an "epic status". Do I really need to do all that?


author: Curt Holley
body: No, you don't have to, but that is how you ensure your epics are Done/Done/Done.

This is good: [Solved: How to hid completed Epics in the "EPICS" side vie... (atlassian.com)](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-hid-completed-Epics-in-the-quot-EPICS-quot-side-view-in/qaq-p/1732541)


author: Mark Brierley
body: Further details: I'm in a free account and this is a team-based project.

[re: the above article you recommended](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-hid-completed-Epics-in-the-quot-EPICS-quot-side-view-in/qaq-p/1732541), I did read that one, but I don't see any of those options.

Here's what they suggest in the article:

![2021-10-04_19-49-08.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/163425i81471D2592F2918D/image-dimensions/348x299?v=v2 "2021-10-04_19-49-08.png")

Here's the Epic panel in my backlog. I don't have a "Mark as Done" option

![2021-10-04_19-54-01.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/163428i8D090D88208269BD/image-dimensions/227x190?v=v2 "2021-10-04_19-54-01.png")

If I click VIEW ALL DETAILS, I see this.... and I if I scroll beyond that I can see all the detail options for the epic, but there is no "epic status".

![2021-10-04_20-01-17.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/163429i14218FA0D786288F/image-dimensions/285x459?v=v2 "2021-10-04_20-01-17.png")


author: Curt Holley
body: Right, Team Managed project is a key piece of information.

Off the top of my head, perhaps an Automation rule?

When Epic transitioned to Done, update the Epic Status field to Done.


author: Mark Brierley
body: Yeah, there's no Epic status anywhere to be found in Team Managed Product epic. It was also Kanban style. So none of that will be useful.

I set up a company managed project and it does have the mark as done. Might just have to migrate to that.

It makes no sense that there isn't a way to get an Epic off of that panel list, as it's going to cause so much clutter. That's why I thought it was maybe a bug.


author: Mark Brierley
body: After playing with team vs company projects, seems like there is a different UX for managing "Done" Epics in Team-based projects. There is no "Epic Status" that I can find, so guess that's a feature request.


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