use of gant chart and kanban board

[David Katz]

We want to use Jira for our Project Management.

I saw that there is a timeline/Gant chart in which you can create Epics and see exactly how long it will take.

In the Kanban Board you can create Tasks. However those Tasks are not shown in the Timeline and the Epics are not shown in the Kanban Board. 

We simply want our cards in the Kanban board to have an overview and from the cards in doing we want to see them in the Timeline when Start and End Date are set.

Simply said we want to use Epics in our Kanban board.

I know that in the calendar you can see the the length of the Task similar to the Timeline but it is not same as a Gant chart. 

We want to display it in the Gant chart that the mother epic is above all necessary Epics for the Project. A usual gant chart.

Hopefully my explanation of our situation is understandable.

How can we do that?

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[John Funk]

Hi David - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The Free version is very limited for things like this. However, you should be able to modify the filter used by the board to also show Epics. What type of project is it? Company-managed? Team-managed? Business? Software? 

[David Katz]

Hi John,

it is a Team managed Software project. 

I tried it with the Filters but Epics are not shown in the Filteroptions in the kanban board. 

I also looked in the Settings and there are both epics and task shown but no setting about what can be used where.

Does that help you to help me?

[John Funk]

Well, first the Team-managed projects are very limited in functionality, and I always strongly suggest people avoid those. You might try spinning up a Company-managed software project and put in just a few work items with the desired hierarchy and see if the Timeline there reflects what you hope to see.