How to hide tasks, or make them private?

Question

Is it possible to hide or lock my tasks and sub-tasks, so they are visible only to me and don't contribute to project reports?

Carlos Garcia Navarro · Answer

Hi @Lorelei Fenton-Brodoway ,

Welcome to the Community!  Are you using company-managed projects? If so, you could use an issue security scheme as described here for Cloud:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-security-schemes/

This is the equivalent for Data Center/ Server:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver075/configuring-issue-level-security-935391113.html

For team-managed projects this feature is not implemented but you can vote and follow here:

In next-gen projects, allow users to restrict issues only to the roles they are associated

Ability to have issue level security in next-gen projects

This posts have also helpful information: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-Server-questions/How-to-hide-tasks-from-user-depending-on-custom-field/qaq-p/646632

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Questions/How-can-I-associate-a-Issue-Security-Scheme-to-a-Team-Managed/qaq-p/1898463

G subramanyam · Answer

Hi @Lorelei Fenton-Brodoway welcome to the Atlassian community.

I haven't tried personally that option. But for your query, I found these links:

Keeping a Task Private for a Specific Status.

Best practice for private tasks (a user adds issues for himself not necesserely related to projects)