Make queues for your team

Make sure that your team is working on the right work items at the right time with queues. A queue is a filtered set of work items that are displayed to your team. Read more about creating queues.

Your teams will spend the majority of their time working out of the queues you set up. Agents don’t have the permissions to add new queues or configure existing ones. As project admins, you can set up queues that automatically triage and prioritize work items for your team. If you want your team to focus on work that must be completed by next week for example, you can set up a queue that only contains work items with a set due date in that week. Read more about arranging queues to prioritize work for your team.

Create a queue

1. Next to Queues in your project, select More actions (), then Queue settings.

2. Select Create new queue.

3. Name your first new queue "Wi-fi access requests."

4. Define the work items you want to appear in this queue by selecting the following criteria in the Work items to show menu:
   
   

   1. In the Resolution dropdown, select Unresolved.

   2. Select the Advanced link. You'll see a query for your resolution. This is called JQL and it's a super powerful way to find exactly what you need across all Jira products.

   3. For now, we'll use JQL to look for "Get guest wi-fi access" requests in your service project. Type the following into the field:

resolution = Unresolved AND "Request Type"="Get guest wi-fi access (MFSD)"

You'll notice that Jira tries to autocomplete your query where it can. The green tick () means that the query is valid. A red x ()means something isn't formatted correctly.

Below the fields, you can see a live preview of the requests that fit into the queue you're creating. If you've set it all up correctly, you should see your "Test wi-fi request" in that list.

Select Save to save your queue and view it.