Add to Board for Jira allows you to easily add issues to your Jira board right from the board view. This solves a common pain-point that Jira users experience when wanting to add issues to the current board that they're viewing.
To get started, open a board and click either:
Then, search for issues by their issue key or summary. You'll be presented with a list of issues in the backlog that match the given search term. For example:
To then add one of these issues to the board, click on the issue (or press enter after highlighting it with your up/down arrow keys)
After reloading the board, the newly-added issue will now be moved from the backlog to the board:
If your team is using parallel sprints, you will see an option too choose which sprint the issue should be added to:
It defaults to the first active sprint, but can be changed by clicking on this dropdown and selecting the desired sprint: