Jira Software Essentials - Second Edition

Creating new columns

If you are the board administrator, you can customize the board's columns to better reflect your workflow:

1. Navigate to the Scrum board that you want to customize.
2. Click on the Board drop-down menu and select the Configure option.
3. Select Columns from the left-hand navigation menu.

From the Column management page, you can customize the following options:

• Columns: You can add, remove, and rename columns.
• Column Layout: You can rearrange the order of columns.
• Issue Status Mapping: You can map columns to issue statuses. For each column, you can have one or more issue statuses mapped to it.
• Column Constraint: You can add constraints to columns, limiting how many issues can be in a status at any given time.

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