Kanban board classifies Story as Other issue

[Sandor Banyai]

Hi,

I have set up my Kanban board so that Swimlanes are based on Stories. I set it in the board settings under Swimlanes.

I created an Epic and assigned a Story to it. The first story contains a number of sub-tasks, too. Later I created more Stories in the Epic.

Now on the Kanban board only the first Story is displayed as a swimlane and its sub-tasks in the corresponding columns (to do, in progress, done). The other Stories of the same Epic is listed under Other issues swimlane. Their sub-tasks are not displayed either.

Any idea what I did wrong?

Regards

Sandor

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sandor Banyai 

What do your Kanban board's filter and sub-filter (in board settings) look like?  I wonder if those issues are somehow being excluded for another reason.  For example, the sub-tasks are not visible and so their parent story goes to the "other" swim lane.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Sandor Banyai]

Yipeee, that's it. The filter did not contain the sub-tasks. Thanks a lot.

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Nice one @Bill Sheboy!

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Hi @Sandor Banyai and welcome to the community!

It's strange to say that only the first story is displayed in a swimlane. Jira clearly states that:

Group sub-tasks under their parent issue. Issues without sub-tasks will be shown in their own group at the bottom.

So I would expect stories without any subtasks, to be group under "other", like in the image below:

[Sandor Banyai]

There are sub-tasks assigned to a Story which is then displayed in the Other issues swimlane....

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

And just to be clear, qtr-15 is a story, right? Not a different issue with the same icon as a story.

[Sandor Banyai]

Yes, it is a Story type of story

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

@Sandor Banyai it is strange..

• I've created an epic and some stories as child issues
• On these stories I've created some subtasks
• All of the stories can be seen in separate swimlanes
• Only stories that don't have any subtasks are visible on the "other" swimlane

I even tried to move some subtasks from another issue type to a story, to see if that was the problem. However, the story was placed on a separate swimlane as well.

Does this happen to other projects?

If you create a new kanban board within this project, and enable the swimlanes, what happens?

[Sandor Banyai]

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- As @Bill Sheboy pointed out it was the filter that caused the problem. Anyway, thanks for your effort to try and help me.