Viewing a Task and it's subtasks on Kanban board using JQL only (No plug ins)

Matt Cook

I have hunted and hunted for the answer to this seemingly simple question but cannot find it.

I have a Kanban board where swimlanes are split by JQL. I wan't this JQL to include the tasks linked to a particular epic, and also include the subtasks within the same swimlane. (This last point being what i cannot get an answer to).

If JQL = "Epic Link" = XYZ, I only get Tasks, rather than both the Tasks and the Subtasks.

 

I don't want to purchase a plug in, I don't want to install a free plug in, I just want to be able to do it natively on JIRA Server

Ignacio Pulgar

I don't like to answer questions which response is summarized as "you can not do that", but this time I'll do.

On Jira Server, that cannot be achieved natively without the help of a plugin.

On Jira Cloud, there's a convenient native function named parentEpic() which also returns subtasks, but I'm afraid it is not available on Server instances.

The best workaround I can think of at the moment would be adding a label 'xyz' to all relevant subtasks, maybe with the help os some bulk changes, so that you can add the subtasks by adding '...OR labels=xyz'.

That's not a very elegant solution, as it needs to be maintained manually and carefully for getting all the desired subtasks accurately, but unfortunately there are no better native alternatives, as far as I know.