Show subtasks in epic based swimlanes in structured way

Question

Hi!

My team is used to have the swimlanes organized by stories. We want to change that to epics. But this makes the view cluttered.

We use sub-tasks in stories and we want to show them in the swimlanes (just like in the story swimlane view).

Is there a way to combine the epic based swimlanes AND show the subtasks  clearly?

Thanks!

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

But in this case you are now excluding the parent issues of the sub-tasks from the board, and you would not be able to reprioritize the parent issues within this board. You would need a second board to see the cards for the parent issues and be able to reprioritize them.

laura.devita · Answer

Hi,

It is possible natively you have to build the Filter  Query

in the following way: in order to obtain epics and subtasks in the result: (issuetype = Sub-task OR issuetype = Epic AND project = BGBS) AND project = BGBS

Swimlanes=Epic

Result in Board:

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Nienke Vos

Welcome to the community.

I am going to assume you are working with a board for a Company Managed project. If that is not the case, please let us know.

I am also going to assume that your definition of "cluttered" vs. "clearly" is a reference to how when you select Epics for swimlanes you see a full card for the story and for each sub-task, compared to the selection of Stories as swimlanes where the story is then reduced to a header for the swimlane and cards display for sub-tasks only.

If my assumptions are correct, then you cannot achieve what you want, at least not with native functionality.