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title: "Use Case: Priority Board"
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> | **Logo** | ![image](media://68724c92-fa53-48f3-8572-693f7fa74dcb) |
> | --- | --- |
> | **Use Case** | Priority Board |
> | **Category** | Other |
> | **Company/Team**<br>**Managed Projects** | Both |
> | **Summary** | Technique to prioritize work across different dimensions |

> 📝 The paragraphs below outlines the specific use case. For more details about advanced features and complementary functionality we suggest to review [https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462](https://releasemanagement.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASPT/pages/875692462) section of this documentation.

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# Detailed overview

## How to create?

(1) Go to “My Boards“ section. If you do not have any active boards this going to be your default page.

![image](media://1b792bcb-1f72-495e-a795-4113a0e091a9)

Otherwise (if you already have one or few boards created) click on menu icon in top left corner to select “Manage Boards“

![image](media://5ffd37cb-bf43-461c-acb1-0ed39d64f291)

(2) Click on “Create board“, choose “Priority Board“ and Next.

![image](media://1ba229ea-730a-49c3-8881-612ded013f73)

(3) On the initial configuration screen please specify

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from
- **JQL** to filter out the issues

![image](media://33b7e3cf-02a0-4dea-bc29-a6b5e711c9d0)

(4) Click “Create“

## How to use?

(1) You will receive a board with predefined columns outlining priorities - from Highest to Lowest.

![image](media://73756def-73d4-4687-994c-ae65811dd896)

(2) Drag and drop issues between columns to change Priority. All the changes to Component field are applied automatically and you do not need to commit it after. 

(3) To **Edit** column value, **Change** title, **Add** or **Remove **one move mouse to selected column and you will receive a tooltip with all the available options:

![image](media://6ce4689b-8dea-48b2-b627-879913dff22e)

e.g. Edit screen looks like the following

![image](media://a7f4cc0b-0309-4cc7-892e-a6eb76c1b41d)

## How to configure?

(1) Click settings icon in top right corner ..

![image](media://3b36cb7f-9c9c-4427-929e-2f816f213c9b)

.. to open “Board configuration“ screen.

![image](media://15ca4bcf-ef27-4101-b00d-d1ef849df9d8)

(2) on “General” Tab you can amend

- **Name** of the board
- **Projects** to pool Jira issues from
- **JQL** to filter out the issues

(3) on “Columns and Swimlanes“ tab you can change configuration of fields used respectively for Columns and Swimlanes. Swimlanes are optional. To remove them choose “-- none -- “ in popup.

![image](media://9a4e7bf3-5362-4147-a79a-4ee63cb27e2e)

## Extra: Support for custom Priority Schemas

If default priority schema is not a fit and you use a custom one we will now support it across all Advanced Boards, both as property and column/swimlane.

![image-20240911-091218.png](media://7525e86d-dd14-4562-b9b6-acf6a00d6243)

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