% Complete based on SubTasks

[Rob Whitmore]

When we create subtasks for an issue type, there is a "gas gauge" that appears and it reports the % Done based on the number of subtasks.  I want to add this field to queues and to reports... I can't find what it is called?  Any help appreciated.   Here is a visual

[Joseph Chung Yin · Accepted solution]

@Rob Whitmore -

Hi Rob:

Can you provide the visual?  It is not included in original ask.

I believe you are referring to the following image when you viewing an issue where there are subtasks associated with it 

If so, based on my knowledge/experience, it is a internal feature/functionality of the product in the issue view UI only, it is not something that you can include in the queues/reports out of the box.  You will need to search for possible reporting third party add-ons from Atlassian Marketplace - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/

Sorry.

Best, Joseph Chung Yin

Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Technology Applications Team

Viasat Inc.

[Rob Whitmore]

Sorry, I thought I had included the screen cap - I have updated original post and yes you are correct.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The gauge is not a field, it is a display coded into the screen you are looking at.

As it's not a field, you can't add it to queues or reports. 

The best you could do is write an app that exposes it as a field, or create a calculated field that displays it with an automation (although that would be a percentage or number display like "12 out of 25 are done", not a bar)

[Brent Walker]

IMHO, this is a poor implementation, especially given that 98+% of folks want to know % Complete.  Granted it can be a bit of fools gold but better than nothing. 

Atlassian, if you are listening, why do you make all your users go create a spreadsheet, export JIRA data to recreate what you have already created?  That is just nonsense.  I read a thread that discussed this approach (thread is here) and my goodness, you really want your JIRA users to do all this work for data you already provide?  Who cares if it is part of the UI.  Make it a field we can get to or better yet let me add that field to my story card so I can see it on my Kanban board.  You read the thread above and tell me if you think that is reasonable.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, I'm not asking Jira users to do any exports, I just think it's a bit of a waste of time doing all that work to extract a "progress" that doesn't really tell you anything of any use.

In real life, you'll find your users don't care about progress, they care about the binary "are we there yet?"  10% done or 90% done - both the same as far as "have you given me what I asked for?"

[Brent Walker]

generally I agree with you Nic from the users perspective.  However my issue is I'm working with an ORG that thinks of projects the old Project Management style.  The management team wants to see things via % Complete, even after sharing with them that can be fools gold at times not really indicating completeness.  I'm not frustrated with your solution at all.  I'm just not willing to go through the trouble for obtaining Data that the JIRA team has included.  They need to take their code out of the UI and put it in the API or make it a field available to be displayed on the Kanban story cards.  Frustrated that they have already done the work but embedded it in the UI where no one can make use of it.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I agree with that, but it does tell me that your PM team do not know what they are doing, and probably need retraining.

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Rob Whitmore

if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this would be available in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of so-called smart columns that aren’t natively available, including the sub-task progress. 

This is how it looks in action:

This is the exact progress bar that you see in the details view of your issues. As you can see above, you can easily sort by the sub-task progress, and also use it across JXL's many advanced features, such as support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting. These advanced features would also allow modelling pretty much any other kind of issue progress, e.g., across multiple hierarchy levels, weighted by estimates, etc. etc.

As every sheet in JXL is powered by a JQL statement, many of our customers use sheets as an extension or alternative to Jira's built-in queues and reports.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Rob Whitmore]

I will take a look at that, thanks for the info...