Hi! Is there a way to add logic to a column on a Kanban board?

Fiona Wylie

I have a 'Closed' column on a kanban board showing all jiras with a global status of Closed, but I would like to be able to split this into separate columns by sub-status  e.g.  'Closed - Wont Do', 'Closed- Completed', 'Closed - Released' etc...
These sub-status options are available in our workflow.
Can I achieve this by adding some logic to the column?
Or is there another way to achieve this?

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Fiona Wylie 

Welcome to the community.

Jira does not support breaking down a column in that way so that all issues with the same status are grouped together when the column has multiple statuses mapped to it. If those sub-statuses are Resolution values, it does not support grouping those together either. Both such groupings would be contradictory to ordering the issues by Rank.

If you split the status/sub-status values into separate columns, only the issues with a status/sub-status in the column farthest to the right will be considered "done" in the agile reports (burndown charts, etc.), so you should not break the values into separate columns

You could use Quick Filters to display the issue based on a selected sub-status.

You could use swimlanes defined by Queries to create swimlanes for each sub-status.

You could use a Saved Filter to query for the issues and sort them in the order you prefer, outside of the Kanban board.