Column contents based on JQL

Question

I'm using Automation For Jira to transfer stories when sub-tasks transfer. So when a new story is in 'to dev' and a sub-task is created and dragged to 'in dev', the story goes with it to 'in dev'. This is to make sure everyone outside of development knows that the story is in development. They are not able to see sub-tasks.

I set a limit on the 'in dev' column but the column also shows and the WIP limit counts the stories. I actually only want it to count the sub-tasks.

Next to that, I'd rather don't show the stories in this column at all. Right now priorities changed so there is not actively being worked on some sub-task from a certain story, but this story remains in 'in dev'. I don't want the development team to be able to move this story back to 'to dev' since we work with kanban. The actual story has been worked on, so the story should be 'in dev', but no sub-tasks are being worked on so I don't want to show it in the column.

Question 1: is it possible to only count sub-tasks for the colum WIP limit?

Question 2: is it possible to only show sub-tasks in a column?

unknown · Answer

Hi @andreas

You're right. I was just stating I use that plugin to let you guys know that I got a workflow that is other than default.

Thanks for your answer. I will read through that topic. Your suggested filter doesn't work for us as you already thought. But maybe I could use some OR statements to filter by status and issue type per column. Would be a long query, but that might work. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for your answer!

Yoni

andreas_qezsu8 · Answer

Hi @[deleted], @Dario B

So I think Yoni's  question here isn't really about Automation for Jira - it's about configuring columns on a Jira software board in a way such that only sub-tasks will show and WIP limits only apply to sub-tasks.

Both I think are currently not possible as far as I know.  I think Jira software boards simply don't support this behaviour currently.  They'll always show the parent issue.

There was a similar question posted previously about this: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Show-only-Sub-Tasks-in-Kanban-Board/qaq-p/796219

Seems to suggest that perhaps you can limit your overall board to this JQL:

* issuetype in subtaskIssueTypes()

However then no parent issues would be shown at all on the entire board, which I'm not sure is what you're after.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Andreas

Dario B · Answer

Hi @[deleted],

I have added the right tags to this question so that the people from Code Barrel will see it.

I am also tagging @Brydie McCoy (CB)  and @John McKiernan1 since I can see that they recently answered similar questions.

Finally, in case you won't still be able to get an answer, you may want to refer to the resources listed in the Marketplace page of Automation for Jira, under the "Support" tab:

* Email vendor
* Submit a support request

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Dario