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Launch
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Navigate
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Filter Data
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Search
Plan
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Link Issues
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Create issues
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Prioritise
Prioritisation tracks
Show Bottlenecks
Launch
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Use the VisualBacklog link in the project navigation to launch it.
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Project: fetches the current project’s issues in addition to their external dependencies/dependents (if
External issuesoption is selected in the project
filter).Board: uses the corresponding board’s JQL filter to fetch issues and their external dependencies/dependents (if
External issuesoption is selected in the project filter).
Filter
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Use the Jira Data Filters data filters on the top of VisualBacklog to filter the issues/projects you want to work with.
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Search Search
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Use the Search Barbar to locate issue, projectprojects, board boards and prioritization prioritisation tracks on the graph.
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Plan
Link Issues
Create issues
View/Edit Issues
Prioritise
Prioritisation tracks
Use the issue link dropdown
to filter out issue links that do not correspond to a dependency relationship e.g. duplicatesorclonesand keep only those that do e.g.blocksEnable the prioritisation tracks option
located in the Layout Configuration panel on the right of VisualBacklog’s screen.Voilà! VisualBacklog groups the issues on the board into prioritisation tracks that are numbered and ordered by the ascending order of priority.
Bottlenecks
And More…
Checkout our comprehensive guide to learn more.
Customise
Use the Layout Controls on the left of the Search Bar to customise the graph’s:
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on the top right corner of the viewport.
Prioritise
Visual Backlog groups the issue graph into layers of issues sorted by priority from the highest to the lowest.
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Set the Layout Direction to Horizontal using the Layout Direction Button
Filter out issues without epics (issues without epics are always drawn on the first layer anyway)
Filter out issue links that are not dependencies and keep only the ones that represent real dependencies between issues e.g: filter out relates link and select blocks link
Prioritise! assign priority to your issues or schedule them for un upcoming sprint. Issues will be grouped into columns ordered from the left to the right by descending priority.
double click an issue to open issue modal
edit the relevant fields e.g. sprint, priority
close the modal (Visual Backlog picks up the changes on modal closing)
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Set the Layout Direction to Vertical using the Layout Direction Button
Filter out issues without epics (issues without epics are always drawn on the first layer anyway)
Filter out issue links that are not dependencies and keep only the ones that represent real dependencies between issues e.g: filter out relates link and select blocks link
Prioritise! assign priority to your issues or schedule them for un upcoming sprint. Issues will be grouped into rows ordered from the top to the bottom by descending priority.
double click an issue to open issue modal
edit the relevant fields e.g. sprint, priority
close the modal (Visual Backlog picks up the changes on modal closing)
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Identify the issues to be linked: in this example, we want a blocks link from
GIBRAL-27toGIBRAL-29If the issues are far from each other, do not hesitate to reposition them close to each other. Don’t worry about the layout, Visual Backlog will take care of fixing that
Drag and Drop a connection from the right port of
GIBRAL-27to the left port ofGIBRAL-29Select an issue link from the drop down, in this case it is a blocks link
Voilà! Visual Backlog will refresh the data and reposition the issues to reflect the new state.
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