>500 Subtasks per issue

[keval.doshi]

Hello everyone,

I have built a system in JIRA wherein my tasks would have >500 subtasks each. I am concerned about all of these causing a slow load on the UI page for the Parent Task. 

I have explored options to 

a. Hide all subtasks

b. Paginate the subtasks

c. Only display the subtasks that I need (probably through a jql)

I haven't been able to find a solution to this yet. I believe this would trouble me going further if not solved now. 

I have an option to move these subtasks to a different issuetype now (This would be the last resort)

Would having such a high no. of subtasks be a problem? Please suggest a good way to handle this case.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

500 subtasks is not an "issue", it's a project in its own right.  You should create a project for this "issue", and have 500 tasks within it.

[keval.doshi]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- I have a created a project P1 which have issues I1, I2, I3, etc. Each of these issues can have >500 subtasks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You said that already.

What you need to do is move up a level.  If an issue is looking to have 500 sub-tasks, it's not an issue, it's a project in its own right.

[keval.doshi]

Thanks for the suggestion.

But I am maintaining an inventory system here which would result in such excessive number of subtasks. I would prefer keeping them under the same project. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's not a lot else you can do - Jira is an issue tracker, with sub-tasks intended to split tasks up into more manageable bits.  500 bits is far too many for humans to process as sub-tasks, they would, and should put them into projects, so it's not designed for huge numbers of sub-tasks on single issues.

[keval.doshi]

I understand the creation of 500+ subtasks is not ideal but this decision was taken on a small dataset. Right now since its scaling, we are addressing these issues.

Thanks. I would then move all the subtasks to a separate issue type and link them to the original task as a separate issue link.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't think it is scaling - when you've got more than a couple of dozen subtasks, it gets too messy for humans.

I think you've got the right idea with your moves though.