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Display checklist progress in Agile board and Search view

Owned by Jack Hunter
Last updated: Nov 25, 2021 by Jennifer Choban
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Select where you want to see checklist progress:

Checklist progress in Agile boards

Jira next-gen projects do not allow to add any additional information to the issue cards yet. It is Atlassian Jira limitation that might be removed in the future. 

  1. Open board settings



  2. Open "Card layout" page and add "Checklist Progress" or "Checklist Progress %" field to the card layout.



  3. Enjoy the checklist progress visible on issue cards

     

Checklist progress in Search issues view

  1. Open "Search" view, click the "Columns" dropdown button and add "Checklist Progress" or "Checklist Progress %" field to the list



  2. Enjoy the checklist progress visible on the search list



Troubleshooting

Issue Checklist tells Jira to use issue entity properties to provide the following features:

Therefore, the Issue Checklist must be able to set issue entity properties (which is the default behavior). 

However, Issue Checklist might not be able to set issue entity property if jira.permission.* workflow property is set on a workflow step. For example, the following property will prevent Issue Checklist from setting issue properties, and features listed above won't work correctly:

Solution: please remove jira.permission.* workflow property and use standard Jira permissions to control who can edit the issue.