Subtasks on Kanban Board

[Admin OKZT]

Hello,

first let me tell you that I am new to Jira and am setting it up for the company I work for. 

So I really do not know that much yet. 

Our projects are compnay-managed

We work with Epics - Tasks - Subtasks.

Our Swimlanes are sorted by Epics with Tasks showing on the Kanban Baord.

And this is where my troubles start. The Subtasks are also showing on the Board and I don't want that. 

They should only be visible eather within the task or as a drop down menu of some sorts. So how do I do that?

Any help would be appreciated. 

Cheers

Jenny

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Admin OKZT  - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can handle this a couple of ways. But you start both in the same place. 

While on the Board, click the 3 dots menu in the upper right and select Board Settings.

Click on the General menu option if not there already. 

Easiest (for Kanban board, not Scrum board) - scroll to the bottom to the Kanban board sub-filter section. It probably has something like this there: 

fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() OR fixVersion is EMPTY

Click into that and change to this: (fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() OR fixVersion is EMPTY) AND issuetype != Sub-task

That will prevent Sub-tasks from showing on the board. 

Or you can edit the board filter itself to include the AND issuetype != Sub-task code in the filter. 

[Admin OKZT]

Hello, thank you, this worked very well. I have one follow up question.

I saw a layout, that looked like the one in the foto. The Sub Tasks are shown in a drop down menu?

How can I do this? 

[John Funk]

That looks like it is either Jira Work Management project (Business type) or maybe a Team-managed project. 

[Admin OKZT]

It is a Team-Managed project. I hoped I could do something like that to our own projects. 

[John Funk]

Not unless you create a Team-managed project.  :-)

It is not available like that for Company-managed. 

[Richard Fromm]

Anyone have any idea how to do this in (cloud hosted) Jira as of Feb 2025? The instructions above don't seem to apply any more. There is no 3 dot menu. There are Settings available, but nothing that shows any kind of filtering. This is a team-managed Kanban project, in case that matters.

[Joel Caceres]

Bump for same question as @Rich 

[Noah Rosenfield]

looks to only be available for Company-Managed 🤯

[Noah Rosenfield]

I'm still looking for this and can confirm that only kanban boards for Company-Managed projects work the way you would expect and display stories in swimlanes under their assigned epic grouped with visible child subtasks.

Why is this not available for Team-Managed projects? This is basic project organization.