How to add Days in Column (Card layout menu missing)

Question

We are using Jira Cloud and I want to view the Days in Column for each card on our Kanban boards. The interwebs says that the answers lies within the Card Layout section of Board Settings; but that menu option is not present...at least for me.

I'm Site-Admin Jira and Project Administrator and we are using Team Managed Project.

Thanks and Regards.

Hillary Varner · Answer

Thank you so much for this, Danut!
You've helped me solve my issue for some of my company-managed boards and now they all have days in column enabled.

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Answer

Hi @Brett,

It appears that you have a team-managed project, which apparently does not support this feature.

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An alternative to the already proposed solution for migrating the project from team-managed to company-managed, which might not be so convenient, would be to use the WIP Aging Chart gadget offered by our Great Gadgets app.

This gadget displays the issues from a board by their age - time in current board column or time in its current status, configurable at your choice. The gadget works with both team-managed and company-managed boards.

You can also set a threshold red line, to easily identify the issues that take longer than expected. Hovering one of the issues will display details about it.

Please note that this app offers many other gadgets that you might find useful, so it could be a great asset for your team.

I hope this helps.

Danut.

Randy O'Neal · Answer

@Brett be advised that IF you were to decide to convert your project to a company-managed project in the hopes you would be able to expose the Days In Column field, that field currently includes non-working days in its values.  So... if you were expecting to see a value of 10 days for something that's been in progress two weeks, you'll actually see 14 days reported by Days In Column.

One way to see the actual days would be to use StonikByte's WIP Aging Chart (there may be others, but this is what I use).  You will get an accurate age count in days to two decimal places.

Good luck!