Sub-tasks staying in status with main task?

Question

Hi Jira Community!

I have a big of an odd question. We have a Kanban team who have a very large backlog that they wanted to keep in a separate board. We tried to solve this by creating a separate board that only displayed items with the "Backlog" type. There's a "Ready" column in the team's main Kanban board where issues they're ready to work on go.

This morning, they discovered that sub-tasks for stories in their Ready column are automatically going to the separate backlog page instead of the Ready column.  Is there a way to have created sub-tasks stay in the same column as the main story?

Thanks so much!

Peter DeWitt · Answer

Checkout Jira Workflow Toolbox:

https://apps.decadis.net/display/JWT/Transition+issues

pjd

David West_8k1e7s · Answer

Thanks for the reply, Peter! Do you have a particular recommendation on an add-on to achieve that?

Peter DeWitt · Answer

Since it sounds like your boards are filtering based on status this is the correct behavior.  You would need to use a third party add-on like Script Runner or Power Scripts to automatically transition all sub-tasks to ready column when the parent is transitioned to that column.

pjd