create foldable swimlanes

[Anna Martell]

How can I create foldable swimlanes in the kanban? 

[Alexander Bondarev · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Anna Martell !

Thanks for clarifications to John's answer.

Why not? You can configure swimlines on Kanban board too - Configure swimlanes .

[Alexander Bondarev]

To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:

• a project administrator for the location of the board
• a board administrator for the board itself

[Anna Martell]

Hi @Alexander Bondarev  Yes sure, I'm the Administrator but I don't quite know which JQL is correct to use to create it. I've tried to follow the page you kindly attached but haven't worked it out.

[Alexander Bondarev]

@Anna Martell ,

Oh, my mistake, sorry! 

If we are talking about "Backlog" tab, it is impossible to create additional "swimlane-folders".

"Selected for development" is the name of the first column of the "Kanban board" tab.

You just can set statuses that will be at this column: 

[Anna Martell]

Ok, no worries, thanks. I would like to set it up for Kanban. Like this.. 

[Alexander Bondarev]

@Anna Martell , looks cool!

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Anna - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

What do you mean by "foldable"?

[Alexander Bondarev]

I opened the question with the same thoughts 😁

Apparently, we will not find out, because your answer has been accepted!

[Anna Martell]

Hi John, Thank you. 
I mean like this. But for the Kanban. 

[Anna Martell]

Sorry, me not knowing yet how it all works here. Answer back to not yet accepted. 

[John Funk]

Sure  :-)

What is it you want to see with the Swimlanes? We can help with the JQL.

The main thing to remember is that a card can only be in one Swimlane an they are hierarchical from the top down. Meaning that if the card meets the JQL in the top Swimlane, then it will stay there. Otherwise the card will continue to work its way down through the Swimlanes if there are multiple ones. 

[John Funk]

You can narrow down the view using Quick Filters, but you cannot see the totals per filter/swimlane in a single view in the Backlog.