How to filter out subtasks in swimlanes?

Question

We have a scrum board wherein we have based our Swimlane on queries. So, whenever we change a story's status from Everything Else to some other status like DEV,QA,UAT it moves to that particular column in the swimlane, Problem is we are not able to filter out sub-tasks from everything else. I know this can be probably done using type != Subtask but I am unable to apply JQL to Everything Else column. Is there a way to filter the Everything Else column? Let me know if I am missing out something.

John Funk · Answer

Hi Mrityunjoy - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can not apply filters to a particular Column, just to Swimlanes or individual issues. It sounds you could create a Quick Filter for the code you describe above which should filter out the Sub-tasks.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

The "everything else" swimlane is there to do what it says - contain everything you have not got into another swimlane.  You don't filter it, it's supposed to be everything you have not already filtered for.

You could create another swimlane for "issuetype in subTaskTypes()", or quick-filter the whole board so you can easily toggle the display of subtasks.