We need to be able to "properly" archive epics, sprints and issues

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:wave:t2: Hi all.

I feel like there’s some missing functionality from Monday.dev which can really help software teams be more productive → archiving things (versus views)

Long long time JIRA user (urgh) - trying (praying) that Monday.dev can be our new place for all our Scrum project management.

As we’re using M.dev more and more, we’re adding more Epics. More Sprints. More Issues. Great!

But now it’s getting “clunky” in the Roadmap/Sprints/Issues pages. Also for the “inline select lists”, like if we’re asked to select an Epic, the list could get long.

We’re leveraging custom views for heaps of things. Like

  • Active Sprint
  • Self Active Sprint
  • those two above, but Kanban style
  • Triage (custom, never closing sprint) + backlog
  • etc…

fine. But i feel like the views are a hack.
like i’d hate to click the ‘Main Table’ or 'All Sprint’s view after a year or two. That’s gonna be … evil/messy/noisy.

But M.dev does have an archive feature! So … what’s wrong with it. Here’s an example.

Archive Sprint 1. When we did this, all the issues remained but were pushed to (i think) the backlog? Urghhh… We just want to archive Sprint 1 + all the issues tagged/linked to S1.

Lots of software dev houses work with current sprint (eg. spring 20) + the next 2 springs (S21 + S22) and backlog. That’s litterally what ‘Main Table’ or ‘All Sprints’ should be, IMO. Well, all not-archived sprints.

This would also follow through to Epics. if we archive an epic - all issues for that epic should be archived IMO.

Are other people also experiencing similar feelings/problems with M.dev, like we are?

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My team is new to Monday.dev having gone live only last week and we are already looking for an answer to this. I agree, it seems to be a missing functionality and would be interested to learn how other users deal with it on the long run.

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+1 This has been driving us nuts. We tried to archive a sprint, but all that did was move all the sprint tasks back into the Backlog. It didn’t even hide the associated group.

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I’m looking for this too.

One way i was thinking was creating a connected column to the Sprints board which you can then show the completed column. once you have this you can set a default filter to hide completed sprints.

it doesn’t remove it and I’m not sure how much of an issue this will become in a few months time.

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