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Can I Collapse/Hide a Column of a Kanban Board?

Sebastian Baehr

Hi smile

We use a JIRA Agile Kanban board for our project and we have a column name "Queue (Waiting for Customer)". This column has a relatively high WiP limit since a lot of support tickets that are waiting for a customer response are collected there. This leads to the board being relatively cluttered in this column while the others have low limits.

Is there a way (maybe even a plugin) to collapse the issues of this particular column? Even though we don't have much influence on how many issues are in this column we would still like to easily see how many issues there are (but not the issues themselves).

Regards

Sebastian

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Not really collapse as such, but you could have a quick-filter for "issues not in status (list of the status within Queue)". Then you could quickly toggle the issues on and off!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Not really collapse as such, but you could have a quick-filter for "issues not in status (list of the status within Queue)". Then you could quickly toggle the issues on and off!

Rahul Aich [Nagra]

Why dont you consider using a quick filter which excludes the data in that column (i.e. you set it as status !=Waiting for customer)

This way your kanban board will not get cluttered and you can of course get to see the entire cluttered board just by unclicking the Quick filter.

Rahul

Matthew Perryman

This is fine, but the unfiltered columns still exist on the screen. Ideally I'd like to collapse/hide empty columns while under quick filter.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Sebastian Baehr

If you still want to collapse columns on your boards, consider submitting a suggestion for Atalassian to add the feature, similar to column collapsing in the tool Kanbanize.

Best regards,

Bill

Patrick Cartier

Hi @Sebastian Baehr ,

Thank you @Bill Sheboy for drawing my attention to this.

We actually created a plugin for this. It's fairly simple and adds the needed functionality.

Here it is:

Collapsible Column for Jira

Let us know if you have any feedback or questions.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Patrick Cartier !

Thanks for the information about your product. Not to takeaway from the market for marketplace add-on options, collapsible columns seems like a pretty obvious missing feature for software versions of Kanban boards. Hopefully it will get added in the future to the out-of-the-box product.

Best regards,

Bill

Bill Sheboy

Hi Kanban board users,

I submitted a suggestion for Atlassian to add column collapse/expand as a native feature of Kanban boards. Please see this item for details:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17698

Best regards,

Bill

Brett Wyrick

Not a great solution, since it won't go company-wide, but this Chrome extension works flawlessly at the time of this posting:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/column-selector-for-jira/imphacfmmdcaijhaoclekogljkpcoaic/related

Holly Esparza_tozzpl

I found something that works, but every time you want to show or hide the column you will need to update the board configuration.

To hide a column, you can merely drag the status(es) in the column configuration off to the right side. This will hide the column when you go back to the board, but the status(es) is still available for use.

To display the column again, configure the board and move those status back to the column.

I use this technique for a column I always want hidden. I needed to set Epics to this column status in order to exclude Epic counts being added at the top of my "To Do" or "In Progress" columns.

Sander G.M. Buist

It's not available anymore so don't delete it or it's gone!!

Ian Girouard

This one works fine :

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-board-column-collaps/hlhmecjeeadfbbmghahgaglgpidankaj

hjootoorames@vmware.com

Nice. It would be create if the extension could help us show/hide arbitrary columns. Only hiding empty columns is only partially useful.

larisa

your advice was very useful to me - it works great

Galina_clp48v

Hey!
Even, if someone would try to call it "not ideal solution"- that perfectly helps me. Thought there should be something like this, just could not find on the go.
Big thanks!

larisa

was send by mistake

larisa

I don't see "Close" column in Kanban board, but the data is saved and everything can be returned at any time.

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