Show subtasks in epic based swimlanes in structured way

[Nienke Vos]

Hi!

My team is used to have the swimlanes organized by stories. We want to change that to epics. But this makes the view cluttered. 

We use sub-tasks in stories and we want to show them in the swimlanes (just like in the story swimlane view). 

Is there a way to combine the epic based swimlanes AND show the subtasks  clearly?

Thanks!

[laura.devita]

Hi,

It is possible natively you have to build the Filter  Query

in the following way: in order to obtain epics and subtasks in the result: (issuetype = Sub-task OR issuetype = Epic AND project = BGBS) AND project = BGBS 

Swimlanes=Epic

Result in Board:

[Trudy Claspill]

But in this case you are now excluding the parent issues of the sub-tasks from the board, and you would not be able to reprioritize the parent issues within this board. You would need a second board to see the cards for the parent issues and be able to reprioritize them.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Nienke Vos 

Welcome to the community.

I am going to assume you are working with a board for a Company Managed project. If that is not the case, please let us know.

I am also going to assume that your definition of "cluttered" vs. "clearly" is a reference to how when you select Epics for swimlanes you see a full card for the story and for each sub-task, compared to the selection of Stories as swimlanes where the story is then reduced to a header for the swimlane and cards display for sub-tasks only.

If my assumptions are correct, then you cannot achieve what you want, at least not with native functionality.