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Tasks not appearing under Epics in Timeline view

Leigh Elliott_0zt71o

Hi Everyone,

Question that I received from one of our staff this week. They are running a project using a Team-managed Jira project. They have created all of their Epics, Tasks and Sub-Tasks and when in the list view they can see all of the Tasks under the Epics they belong. The Epics can be expanded and collapsed so that the view only show Epics and then when he wants to drill down on tasks within a specific Epic the Epic can be expanded.

The question is when going in to the Timeline and Board view the tasks are not presented as children within Epics. This means for the Timeline view the tasks with in Epics can not be expanded or collapsed and appear as separate line items. The same also happens in the Board view, each Epic and Task appears as a separate unrelated card on the board. If an Epic that contains children tasks is moved to another bucket on the board only the Epic moves and its child tasks incorrectly remain in the original bucket.

Does any one know why the Timeline and Board views behave differently compared with the List view? It looks like a bug.

Any advice or guidance welcome, thanks.

Accepted answers

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Leigh Elliott

Timeline is a feature of the Work Management/Business project type. Can you confirm for us that is the type of project in this scenario?

If you are working with such a project, it appears that nesting child issues under an Epic in the timeline view is not yet supported. Refer to

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-111

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Leigh Elliott

Timeline is a feature of the Work Management/Business project type. Can you confirm for us that is the type of project in this scenario?

If you are working with such a project, it appears that nesting child issues under an Epic in the timeline view is not yet supported. Refer to

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-111

Leigh Elliott_0zt71o

Thanks @Trudy P Claspill

The project type is a "Business project"

Leigh Elliott_0zt71o

Looks like this is exactly the issue we are seeing, so I guess I'll have to wait until the functionality is built.

Ulrich Scharf

+1 in voting this as an important issue to resolve. For any marginally complex project, nesting tasks below epics is a key feature to make the timeline useable.

Isaiah John

Hey Guys,

Help us get this issue resolved by clicking this link then voting:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-111
Also, share this on any other issues you are watching so Jira implements it faster.

Thanks,
Isaiah

Joe Maggiore

if this isn't fixed would consider just leaving jira

Micheal Planck

If institutional inertia did not exist, neither would Atlassian.

I can't believe there isn't a better system out there, somewhere; but I can't be bothered to search for it because management already bought into this one.

And honestly, Jira is good enough. It is the literal definition of bad software design and development, but it can get the job done as long as you don't care what it looks like or how hard it is to do the job.

The tyranny of gargantuan mediocrity. It's a metaphor for modern life.

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