It's possible to change the Card Colors settings in Jira boards to display which cards are assigned to users who are Out of Office.

For this, you'll need a Company-managed project. Team-managed projects don't give the option to configure card colors!

How to Configure your board to display a different color when the assignee is Out of Office

  • In your desired board, click on the meatball menu and select "Board settings"

  • In the board settings, click on Card colors
  • Select "Queries" as the method to change colors

  • Then, add any from following JQL queries:

Assignee is Out of Office todayAssignee is Out of Office tomorrowAssignee is out of office soon (in less than four days)
Queryassignee.outofoffice.today=1assignee.outofoffice.tomorrow=1assignee.outofoffice.soon=1
Recommended colorRedOrangeYellow

The result will look something like this:


Note that if you combine multiple colors and queries, you will have to make sure that they are mutually exclusive with AND operators and some boolean logic:



Assignee is Out of Office todayAssignee is Out of Office tomorrowAssignee is out of office soon (in less than four days)
Queryassignee.outofoffice.today=1assignee.outofoffice.tomorrow=1 AND assignee.outofoffice.today=0

assignee.outofoffice.today=0 AND assignee.outofoffice.tomorrow=0 AND assignee.outofoffice.soon=1

Recommended colorRedOrangeYellow