Filters and refinement

BetterBoard’s filter bar lets you narrow the board to exactly the work items you care about. Filters are composable and support 25+ operators across all field types.

Opening the filter bar

Click the Filter button in the board toolbar. The filter bar expands below the toolbar, showing any active filters and an Add filter button. Click Filter again to collapse the bar and keep the filters applied. Hover over or focus the button to see the applied filter count.

Adding a filter

1. Click the Filter button in the toolbar to open the filter bar
2. Select Add filter and choose a field, such as Assignee, Sprint, Priority, or Labels
3. Choose an operator, such as is, is not, contains, or is empty
4. Select or enter a value if the operator needs one. The board updates as the filter is applied
5. Click the blue Save button in the toolbar to persist the filter with the board

Multiple filters are combined with AND logic: a work item must match all active filters to appear on the board. A date range can be one filter, or you can combine separate date conditions.

You can apply filters without saving them — useful for a temporary view. Unsaved filters are visible only to you in your current session and are not shared with others viewing the board.

Filter operators

Operators available depend on the field type:

Option fields

For option fields (Priority, Status, Labels, single/multi-select):

• is — exact match (one value)
• is any of — matches one or more values
• is not — excludes a value
• is none of — excludes multiple values
• is empty / is not empty

User fields

For user fields (Assignee, Reporter):

• is — assigned to a specific person
• is any of — assigned to any of several people
• is not / is none of
• is empty (unassigned) / is not empty
• is current user — dynamic: filters to whoever is viewing the board

Date fields

For date fields (Due Date, Start Date, Created, Updated, and custom date fields):

• on / not on — match or exclude a single day
• before / after — exclude the selected day
• on or before / on or after — include the selected day
• is within / is not within — inside or outside a date range
• is empty / is not empty

Choose a relative date or timeframe, such as Today or This week, to follow the calendar. Use Specific dates… to select a fixed date or range.

Change history

Choose a supported field and open changed in the operator menu. Relative dates refresh at midnight in your Jira time zone. See Change operator for the supported fields and comparisons.

Separate change conditions can match different events. To match who made a change and when in the same event, use a saved Jira filter with both criteria in one JQL history condition.

Saved Jira filters

Choose Jira filter to narrow the board using filters saved in Jira. You can match work returned by any or all of the filters you select. See Saved Jira filters for how matching works on shared views.

Text fields

• contains / does not contain
• is / is not

Number fields

• =, ≠, >, ≥, <, ≤

Multi-value selection fields

Labels, multi-select fields, Sprint, and linked Jira Assets objects can use is any of, is none of, includes all of, is empty, and is not empty. Assets filters can also match supported object attributes.

For the complete operator reference, see Filter operators.

Jira Service Management SLA filters

Choose a specific SLA metric to filter by remaining, elapsed, breached, running, paused, or completed. The first two operators take a duration and only match ongoing SLA cycles, never concluded cycles. The others need no value. Remaining finds unbreached SLAs with up to the entered time left. See Jira Service Management SLAs for examples and the meaning of each state.

Goals and Atlassian projects

Choose Goals or Atlassian Project to find work linked to specific goals or projects, or use is empty to find work without a link. Choose Atlassian Goal Status or Atlassian Project Status to find work by the linked initiative’s status, such as At risk or Off track. These filters work without adding the fields to cards. See Goals and Atlassian projects for operators and examples.

Sprint filter

The Sprint filter has dedicated options:

• is active sprint — shows work items in any currently active sprint
• is — pick a specific named sprint
• is any of — pick multiple sprints
• is backlog — work items not in any sprint

Blockers filter

The synthetic Blockers field lets you filter by blocking relationships:

• has blockers — shows work items with at least one “is blocked by” link
• is blocking — shows work items that are blocking other work items

Current user filter

The is current user operator on the Assignee filter is dynamic — it resolves to whoever is currently viewing the board. On a shared board, setting Assignee is current user means each person sees only their own work items without needing separate boards.