Show only Sub-Tasks in Kanban Board

[Eric Brahmann]

Hi all,

i am a bit confused .... i thougth this Task would be very simple... but after 15 min of googling and trying .... i got no clue....

I got an Kanban Board (all to me assigned Issues), Issue Types are Epics with linked User Stories that contain Sub-Tasks.

My actually ToDos are Sub-Tasks only, so I want to have a quick Filter showing those without their Parent Tasks (User Stories / Epics).

This JQL does not Show any Task ....

issuetype =Sub-task or type = sub-Task

Eric

[Jacob Wulff]

Hi there

The following JQL shows only sub-tasks, and can be used in a kanban board:

• issuetype in subtaskIssueTypes()

/Jacob

[Eric Brahmann]

Filtering for "Technical-Task" instead works better, but then the Swimmlanes are not shown any more.....

Eric

[Bastian Stehmann]

Technical Task will be the right one, as it looks that there is no Sub-Task named Sub-Task.

You can use "issuetype in subtaskIssueTypes()" instead to have it working if there will be more Sub-Task-Types added in the future.

The swimlanes can not be shown any more, because you filter out the epics.

If you want to have the swimlanes back, just add "or issuetype=Epic" to your quickfilter

[Eric Brahmann]

- I l ike your tip regarding the General Approach  ( "issuetype in subtaskIssueTypes()" ) thx for that

- Adding "or issuetype=Epic" does not work, all subtasks are shown, but the Epic-swimmlanes are not shown

Eric

[Bastian Stehmann]

You are right, sorry. There is no direct link from Sub-Task to Epic, so Jira is can not connect them both if the Story is not present. 

Maybe you can do that by using queries instead of epics as swimlanes, but that means a lot of work, because you will have to add the swimlane for every epic by hand.

If you have the scriptrunner Add-On, you should be able to use 

issueFunction in subtasksOf("Epic-Link=YourEpicID")

[Eric Brahmann]

that's one pronelm for me, we do not have the script runner installed .... huge Company ... Long ways ....

[Bastian Stehmann]

Ok, you can do it without that, but that will mean a lot more work....

Find out, which stories are within each epic.

Then use the following JQL "parent in (storyid1, storyid2,...)" to configure each epic as swimlane.

But at least I won't do that, as you must add every story when it is created to you JQL queries to have a correct board.

Sorry, I do not have any other idea to group it by epics with hiding the stories...

If you do not need the Epic-View on your Board, maybe the Story-Swimlanes can help. I know, thats probably a lot more swimlanes when using Stories instead of epics. But you won't see the Story itself als card, only as headline of the swimlane.

[Eric Brahmann]

thx for the Explanation!

That is too much work!

Yeah, i just switched to User Stories as swimmlanes and I am buildiung Quick Filters for each epic.

But for building those the Script Runner would be nice as well, ... i Need to filter on Labels to see all Sub Tasks (very error prone..)

As Script Runner is not a free app, would you recommend "AM Utils"

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211565/am-utils?tab=overview

It's free and supported and gives as well some additional JQL commands

Eric

[Bastian Stehmann]

I never tried that Add-On before, so I have no experience I can share with you, but reviews look OK and there is at least some documentation, so maybe you can just try it in a test environment if available if it does what you expect.

[Bastian Stehmann]

Hi Eric,

do your subtasks appear on your board without that quick-filter? Do you use any swimlanes?

[Eric Brahmann]

I am using epics as swimmlanes

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

What is your project type? Is it a software project? To ask it another way. Is it a business board or Jira software board?

[Eric Brahmann]

Actually i do not know, but it seems to be a scrum and therefore probably a Software Project