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Filters, search and sorting

The funnel icon in the top bar opens the filter panel. It slides in from the right and controls both the list and the board.

Screenshot to come: the filter panel open.

The thing to know first​

Filters live in your browser, per project.

They are not part of the project and they are not shared. Your colleague looking at the same project can see a different set of issues, and neither of you is wrong.

Two consequences worth remembering:

  • "There are no issues in this milestone" may be untrue. It may mean your filter is hiding them.
  • Your filters follow the browser, not your account. Switch to your laptop, or a private window, and you start clean.

What is in the panel​

Board by - what the board's columns are. Same as Group by in the top bar.

Search - free text across every field, including hidden columns.

One filter per field - Status, Assigned to, Type, Milestone, Priority. Tick the values you want; ticking none means "all of them".

Labels - tick one or more. An issue matches if it has any of them.

Columns - which columns the list shows. Nothing to do with filtering; it lives here because this is the panel that remembers your preferences.

Sort by and Direction - the sort field and ascending or descending. Useful for sorting by a column you have hidden.

Deadline - a from and a to date. Leave one blank for an open-ended range.

Show Closed - off by default. This is the setting people forget. Closed issues are hidden until you turn it on, which is usually what you want and occasionally the reason a whole month's work seems to have vanished.

How to tell a filter is on​

Honestly: at the moment, by opening the panel and looking.

There is no visible summary above the table saying "3 filters active, 42 issues hidden". That is a known gap and chips showing the active filters are planned.

Until then, two habits help:

  • If a count looks wrong, open the funnel before concluding anything.
  • If you have set up a narrow view for a specific job, clear it when you are done, because it will still be there tomorrow.

Clearing filters​

Untick what you ticked, clear the search box, and empty the deadline fields. Each one is remembered separately, so a filter set two weeks ago is still applied today.

Filters and export​

The filters here do not affect what a BCF export contains. The export dialog has its own filters, and only those decide what goes into the file.

This is one of the most common wrong assumptions about the app, which is why it appears on three different pages.