There are two ways of adding a backlog item to an epic.
1. in the backlog view, add the epic column to the display of items. You can then click the column and get a list of epics and select on.
2. In the epics tab in Product Planning, use the filter dropdown to display all backlog items. That shows all epics and backlog items in one great list. You can now drag an item into an epic.
The first solution is weak. Ordinarily I don't want to see the epic column. When I need to classify it requires me to customize my view, then recustomize it when I'm done. Ideally, this should be easy to do from the epics tab of Product Planning.
This second way is very poor. For starters, you probably have a great many more backlog items than epics, so finding the epic you want may be difficult. Secondly, the backlog item and the epic may not be displayable simultaneously because of pagination of the list of stories.
A better solution is to list the epics in one table, and below list all backlog items (and defects, of course) in a separate table. Each table will be separately paginated, so you should be able to display both the epic and the backlog item simultaneously. It is also easy to know which items are backlog items because they display in a separate table. So once can easily drag and drop a backlog item onto an epic.
by: Michael H. | over a year ago | Product Planning
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There are other options. While not the precise solutions described in this idea, the goal in both is to make this assignment much easier regardless of where you start your quest:
* The multi-select Move to Epic feature is available on the Backlog and Epic Tree pages. This allows the bulk selection and assignment of backlog to an epic.
* The Epic Details view, as of Winter '13, allows you to assign existing backlog (or defects or test sets) to an epic via a lookup.