Workaround needed - Subtasks on Kanban Board / Due Date Management

[Mischke_ Mona]

Hello everyone,

Perhaps I should say by way of introduction that I am very dissatisfied with the functionality of the business project that I have selected. In case of doubt, it was a momentous mistake to select "Business Project" instead of "Software Project" - even if it is more of a business project.

 Unfortunately, I have already invested two weeks in setting up the project - so I definitely don't have the time to set up the project again as a software project and a simple migration doesn't seem to be possible either?

 So now to my specific question:

I'm wondering how to use the Kanban board, which is provided in the business project, in a meaningful way if the sub-tasks are firmly attached to the tasks. I have stored sub-tasks for many tasks and these also have a status (by default!). My Kanban board is organised according to the different statuses and I have also added one called "due soon" and implemented a rule that pushes all issues to the status whose due date is only three days away.

However, the problem is that the sub-tasks are not listed individually on the Kanban board. This means that an issue is in status X and it is not at all clear that a number of sub-tasks below it are perhaps in the status "due soon" or even in a completely different status. To do this, I would simply have to manually go into all the tasks on the entire board and have a look at the sub-tasks --> That can't be the point. How did you solve this? Or do you not work with sub-tasks at all? Or do they never get their own status?

I'm a bit frustrated at the moment because I thought I had found the tool in Jira that would provide me with optimal support for a large project and I've now put so much work into it, but I'm still coming up against limits (that I somehow can't understand). It looks like I'll still have to keep a to-do list of what I have to do and when, but that's exactly what I wanted to avoid and finally get everything in one place.

But maybe other users have a tip how to sole my problem? Or maybe I just oversee functionalities or use them in a wrong way?

[Mischke_ Mona]

Hey,
just wanted to let you know, that I found a workaround thanks to a nice Jira User here! 

He posted a way how to add a configurable kanban board although you are in a business project. 

So my problem is solved and I am quite happy. 

Still cannot understand, why this is such a "hidden solution" and not an official feature for users of business projects, but anyway.. Seems that I can still use my project :)