Jira Board Column Width

Question

Hi,

yesterday, August 7, an undesirable change took place in Jira. Until yesterday, all the board columns were displayed on one screen - so they were narrower.

Since yesterday, all boards have columns of the same width at the same time, so if the board has more columns, then these columns extend beyond the screen and it is necessary to scroll them to the right.

This new layout is very inefficient and greatly reduces usability of this application.

For example: HTML element "ghx-pool-column" was implemented with style "display: table-cell; position: relative;". Now this configuration was replaced with class "ghx-flexible-board"

Is available any information about this change? Thank you

Michael Ortwein · Answer

What is the "other side"?  Who would possibly want to horizontally scroll?  Sorry that's heinous.  The only solution, if they want to do this bad default behavior, would be to provide a configurable column width which is a trivial update.

You may lose thousands of companies for this foolish decision.

Jack Brickey · Answer

That would be my guess as well.

I get/understand and see both sides of the story here. If you have 3 to 4 columns then it's not a problem if you get 5 to 7 it might be better just to compress them. However, once you get beyond that a scroll bar begins to make more sense. The problem is how do you implement to satisfy all users?

For me personally I always try to avoid boards with too many columns and for all but one or two scenarios I have been successful. I'm just not a big fan of highly complex workflows with many statuses. Of course that's just me and my desire to keep things very simple when it comes to kanban and scrum boards.

In any event I would suggest sharing your feedback with Atlassian via that in-app feedback link.

Miroslav Stopka · Answer

Seems like they have implemented change https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-21013

For me, the main purpose of board is to provide a fast and simple overview of the status of the tasks. Now this purpose is dead :D  But it looks pretty indeed...