How to add new swimlane in the next-gen project?

[Lalita Bang]

Hi,

I can see there are different columns in the next-gen project for swimlanes. I want to add new swimlane in the project but don't want an extra column for it on the board. Can someone tell me how to add extra swimlane but not a column on the board?

[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

It would be great to see this feature added to Next Gen.

[Joe Bagley]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17580?_ga=2.187824047.649779847.1592922471-172173322.1585576556

[Marc Williams]

Follow the link Joe has posted above to vote for this update request

[Ben Ross · Accepted solution]

Atlassian has ruined what otherwise would be a great new version by taking away a really valuable level of functionality. When we have cross team initiatives, I wanted swimlanes to represent which team is currently responsible. Avoiding WIP and making this more self serve and obvious, where in the flow it is would be useful

[Joe Bagley]

Link for this feature request https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17580?_ga=2.187824047.649779847.1592922471-172173322.1585576556

[brad.shantz · Accepted solution]

Not having swimlanes is a full stop for us using Jira Next-Gen. 

[david.cruz · Accepted solution]

I agree, swimlanes are just great to manage a lot of tasks. Please add it.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You can not add swimlanes in next-gen projects.

[mshelley · Accepted solution]

Agree.  Having swimlanes is one reason I advocated for Jira vs. a Trello board.  Would love to see this functionality added back in for Next Gen.

[RockLobster7 · Accepted solution]

I cannot believe how much fundamental functionality is missing from the Next Gen. Swimlanes were a staple in the old JIRA.

[Cole Carter · Accepted solution]

Would love to see this feature added to next-gen projects.

[Qu3ntin · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You have access to only 2 pre-configured swimlanes (upper right of the board):

• By epic
• By  Assignee

However you can still create a board with a filter on your Next gen project.

The workaround would be to create an empty project to hold this board.

[Kristof Muhi]

This is a great workaround/hack idea. 

I have created some dummy epics and using them as swimlanes for a super lightweight nextgen project we are working with.

Thanks a lot! 

[cwinfree · Accepted solution]

Agree, need a way of adding an expediter lane. 

[Oliviu L.Ghenciu]

In the top left corner, "Group by..." gives you the ability to divide the kanban view in swimlane like rows, according to Assignee, Epic, Subtask. 

I used swimlanes for different production layers, independent on the Epic or Subtask. These layers in my case were across all Sprints and not a parent task or an epic. But then I was not using Epics to much. 

Once forced to use Epics more often due to next-gen I ended up making use of the Roadmap feature as well. Previously I was using a 3rd party for Gantt charting.

I guess Atlassian is forcing us here in an updated management workflow, rather than a workaround. Though annoying, somehow the benefits emerge slowly.

[Colin Pal]

It is absolutely ludicrous that next gen does not have the ability to create swimlanes :|

[David Benoit]

Next-Gen does not have swimlanes. or any board settings for that matter. This is causing our team problems. The community has advocated for for over a year but it doesn't seem to be a high priority. 

[Andrew Waters]

Please add swimlanes! I want to place stories in a lane for each squad on our team rather than one large bucket of work. Group by Assignee, Epic, & Subtask does not solve this at all!

[Mark Goverde]

Please add swimlanes feature on kanban board.

[Bob Kosse]

You can use swimlanes by grouping on 'Subtasks' in the board view. That will give you the same layout as in the good ol' days!

[Matthew Lemens]

That is nice, but you can't see the parent title when you group by subtasks.

[Kevin Foad]

Swimlanes, even basic ones based on a field, would really help arrange complicated projects with multiple validation steps - by being able to stack parallel or alternative flows. Simplifying process is a great thing to advocate, but life isn't always that simple.

e.g. 'Make a cup of tea' - you may want to capture, but not provide an explicit column, for each of 'add milk' 'add sugar' 'add sweetener' 'add lemon' 'add brown sugar' - It would be much better to have just two columns called 'sweeten' and 'milk or cream?' with the specific routes swimlaned out.

[Nick van der Net]

This is done now. I can add swimlanes on NextGen projects.

[glenn connolly]

Hi! Can you please share how you have added them? I'm hoping to add custom swimlanes.

[Adriano Fialho]

Please add swimlanes feature on kanban board. They are just great to manage a lot of tasks and priorities. Please add it.