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'Days in column' feature in a company-managed "buissness space"?

Zoe N_

On some Boards in my Company which are in a company-managed "software space" I have see the feature 'Days in column'. I know that on these boards users or admins can choose to enable 'Days in column' feature via the board settings.

I have a space which is a company-managed "buissness space". I do not have the same option to enable 'Days in column' feature there. Is there a possibility to enable 'Days in column' feature in a company-managed "buissness space"? If not, are there any alternatives? In my company-managed "buissness space" I have a workflow with multiple status and I would like to track how long a work item is in one status.

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Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Zoe N_

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

The "Days in column" option is available only for Scrum and Kanban boards. It is not available to add to the board that is automatically included for a Business space.

An alternative would be to create another board for the Business space by:

1. Creating a filter that selects all work items from the Business space and saving that filter.

2. Share that filter with other users that would need to see the board.

3. Creating a new Kanban board based on that saved filter.

4. Add a Shortcut to that new board within the Business space Shortcuts tab.

John Funk

Hi Sophia - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Business projects/spaces are very limited when it comes to the configurations of the board. If you want/need to be able to set WIP Limits for columns in the Kanban board, you need to use a Jira Software Company-managed project/space.

Zoe N_

Hei John, I feard that this would be the answere. But thank you for your quit response. I will keep this in mind for future projects. BR

Zoe N_

Hei Trudy, Thank you for this solution. So the "work around" board would mimic the original one? But I would still need to work in the original board or can I work on the work items in the "work around" board?

Danut M _StonikByte_

Hi @Zoe N_,

I’m afraid this isn’t possible in team-managed business projects.

However, if you’re open to using an app from the Atlassian Marketplace, I’d recommend trying the WIP Aging Chart gadget from our Great Gadgets app.

This gadget can display issues from a board, filter, or JQL by their age, and it allows you to configure different aging criteria such as time in column, time in status, time in status category, etc.

While this gadget cannot use the board of that business project (due to Jira REST API limitations), you can configure it with a filter/JQL that returns the issues from the board and calculate their age based on the time in the current status, in days.

As a result, you will get a chart showing the statuses on x-axis (To Do, In Progress, ...) and the issues in each status by their age on y-axis. If you have only one status mapped on a board column, this will work just like "Days in column" feature.

Hope this helps.

Danut.

Rahul_RVS

Hi @Zoe N_

To calculate the days in status of an issue, you might be interested in a mktplace app,

Time in Status Reports

With the app you can generate reports such as:

- time in status for Jira issues

- how long colleagues have been assigned to issues

- average time issue has been spent in each state

- date of issue entry into a status

- transition and status count for each issue

- Group your statuses to define your own Cycle/Lead times

- Export your data to a BI tool like Power BI or a csv file

Do give it a try !!

The app works with Team Managed Projects too. Also the app has 20+ reports to meet a variety of other use cases.

More details here.

Disclaimer : I am part of the app team for this add-on

John Funk

If you would like to create a second board, here is an article that will walk you through it. And yes, you can work in the second board.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Agile-articles/Creating-a-Second-Agile-Board-for-Team-Managed-or-JIra-Work/ba-p/2115018

Trudy P Claspill

The functionality of a "software" Kanban board and a Business project native board is not identical. For example:

In the Business board if an item has sub-tasks those sub-tasks are all nested under the parent item in the column that corresponds to the parent item's status, regardless of the status of the sub-tasks.

In a software Kanban board the sub-tasks appear in the column that aligns with their own status rather than staying in the same column as the parent.

Additionally

the filtering functionality is different
the Business board has a Group option that changes the criteria for the columns from Status to other options. That option doesn't exist in the Kanban board. The Group option in the Kanban board enacts Swimlanes (horizontal groupings) but keep the columns the same.
the kanban board has different options for how long items can stay in the "done" column.

Those are just a few differences.

Any change that you make to an item through either the Business board or the Kanban board goes straight into the item. The Kanban board doesn't have a copy of the item. If the change you make can be visualized through the other board, like a change of Status, that will be reflected in the both boards. You can work on items through either board.

Birkan Yildiz _OBSS_

Hey @Zoe N_

The "Days in column" feature is specific to Jira Software's Scrum and Kanban boards. Unfortunately, it is not available for boards in company-managed Business projects.

If you need to track how long a work item sits in a specific status for these projects, a Marketplace app is the best alternative. Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira handles this requirement perfectly.
You can use its Status Duration report. Instead of just a visual indicator on a card, this report gives you the precise time (in days, hours, or minutes) that every issue has spent in each status of your workflow.

Key advantages over the native feature:

It works for Business Projects: It is not limited to Software boards.
It's More Accurate: While "Days in column" counts 24/7, Timepiece lets you use Custom Calendars to count only working days/hours, giving you a true picture of delays.
Dashboard Gadgets: You can create dashboards to track status duration and share it with teammates easily.

To learn more about Timepiece, check it out on the Atlassian Marketplace. Hope this helps.

Full disclosure, I'm on the team that makes Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira.

Iryna Komarnitska_SaaSJet_

Hi @Zoe N_ ,

If you don't mind using third-party apps, I can recommend using time in status custom fields, which is one of the features of the Time in Status by SaaSJet app(I am part of this team).

You can create a custom field to measure time in the current status (column on the board) or create time metrics to calculate Lead time, Cycle time, Resolution time, etc. for each individual work item.

You can also add your custom work schedules to these fields, and all calculations will be based solely on your working hours, excluding weekends, breaks, etc.

I hope you find this useful!

Fatma Uzundemir from The Starware

Hi @Zoe N_ 👋🏻,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Unfortunately, Jira does not provide a built-in field that shows how long an issue has spent in a specific status. However, we don’t want this to be a limitation for you. If you are open to using third-party solutions, we would like to recommend Time in Status.

🌱 With Time in Status, you can view:

The total time spent in the selected status for any issue
The current status duration for the issue
Or only the time spent in the selected status during the last transition

🌱Additionally, you can select multiple statuses and group them together for combined reporting, giving you much more flexibility in tracking workflow durations.

🍀 To learn more, feel free to contact me or explore the application through the Atlassian Marketplace link I’ve provided.

Alternatively, if you would like to try or explore our other custom fields, we also offer another app called Custom Fields ++ for Jira, which includes Time in Status along with many other custom fields. Feel free to visit this app as well to discover all available custom field options. 🍀

Disclaimer:I work for the vendor who developed this application.

Petru Simion [Simitech Ltd.]

Hi @Zoe N_ ,

On company-managed “software” boards, the Days in column feature works because each board column represents one or more workflow statuses — so Jira is really tracking how long the issue stayed in the statuses mapped to that column.

In a company-managed business project, that specific “Days in column” toggle isn’t available. And even when it is available, it’s important to understand that:

👉 Jira does NOT really track “time in column”

Columns are only visual buckets. What actually matters is the statuses mapped to those columns — because your workflow runs on statuses, not on board layout.

So if you want to know:

“How long was this issue waiting in this stage of the process?”

what you’re really looking for is:

⏱ Time in Status

An app released by our company.

That means measuring how long the issue stays in each workflow status — regardless of which column those statuses are mapped to.

What you can do instead

If your workflow has multiple statuses like
➡️ “To Do → In Progress → Waiting → Done”

you can report on the time spent in each status individually or group statuses together into a cycle (for example: all “in progress”-type statuses).

Tools like Time in Status Reporter for Jira make this easy by letting you:

✔ Measure time spent in every status
✔ Track average time per status
✔ Group multiple statuses into your own “cycle”
✔ Create global cycles (admin-defined) or personal cycles (user-defined)
✔ Export results for reporting

So instead of relying on a feature tied to specific board types, you get real workflow-based timing, which works consistently across Software and Business projects.

Regards,

Petru

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