Forums

Articles
Create
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

How to remove duplicates in a list view when trying to view with "Show Hierarchy" toggled on?

Steve Russell
I'm New Here
I'm New Here
Those new to the Atlassian Community have posted less than three times. Give them a warm welcome!
August 27, 2026

We have a project with a simple Epic-Task-Subtask hierarchy. When viewing in a list view and with "Show Hierarchy" toggled on, both Epics and Tasks show in the list. If I expand an Epic, it correctly shows the children Tasks, but they are now duplicated in the list. Each child shows under the parent Epic, and then again in the the root of the list. If the Task is selected, then the duplicate also shows as being selected. This is very confusing for the user. Is there a fix or configuration change or anything to avoid having this happen? We are running team managed projects on jira cloud.

2 answers

1 vote
Germán Morales
Community Champion
August 28, 2026

Hi @Steve Russell , this is a Jira Cloud List view regression rather than a configuration issue. Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Atlassian has logged JRACLOUD-99329 for this exact behavior: with Show Hierarchy enabled, a child work item appears under its parent and again as an independent row. The related JRACLOUD-99336 also confirms the duplication in team-managed spaces.

The two rows represent the same underlying work item, which is why selecting one also selects the other. Do not delete either copy.

There is currently no documented workaround that keeps the hierarchical view without duplicates. If you need a clean view for now, turn off Show Hierarchy and use the flat list. There is no need to change the Epic, Task, or Subtask relationships.

0 votes
Vladislav Tsaregorodtsev
Contributor
August 28, 2026

If I understand correctly then this is what the Show hierarchy function does and you can’t do anything about it. This is how it’s designed.

Have you tried using Timeline? It should work better but of course it’s a different view.

You could try to play with grouping (by work item for example) and/or filtering but it won’t create such a hierarchical view.

 

Suggest an answer

Log in or Sign up to answer
TAGS
AUG Leaders

Atlassian Community Events