🚀 Exciting News for Jira Work Management Users: Enhanced Task Nesting Coming Soon! 🚀

[Meg Christolini]

Hi @Iain McCarthy - That's fair feedback. We also hear that a lot of users would like to see more alignment between the JSW & JWM board views. We are working on defining a holistic vision for the board view across Jira. 

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Hi @Gaetan & @Markus Ernst - we will not be shipping saved views or changes to how filtering is displayed in the release in May.

We are not ready to commit to if/when nested filtering changes will be made. There is significant complexity in the solution due to cross-project parent linking and the extended issue hierarchy. We need additional time to test various solutions before we make a change like this. 

The releases in May will be focused on adding nesting to the timeline view in JWM and the ability to drag-and-drop to re-parent tasks.

[Micheal Planck]

So Atlassian is going to do all the work to create full level nesting on timelines for Work Management... but not Software management.

Once the JWM timeline shows all levels, why isn't it exactly the same as the JSM timeline? The only difference between the two now is one shows epics/tasks and the other shows task/subtasks. What's left to be different? Why not just have a single timeline, for all levels, for all products?

Instead, Atlassian will re-write the entire timeline for JSM. Line. By. Line. To achieve exactly the same effect as JWM.

I've said it before and I will say it again: Atlassian does not know how to write a function.

[Aleksi Leinonen]

Hi @Meg Christolini , will this also fix the issue with "Group by: Assignee" in list view? Currently it doesn't show Epics and Subtasks. Well subtasks can be seen under the person who is the assignee of its parent ticket, but that's not what I'd like to see. Epics are not visible in this view at all.

Edit: What's even worse is that regular Level 0 issues that are under an Epic are not visible in this view either, even if the assignee is the same on the epic and task. Essentially you can't use any epics in the project if you want to utilize this view.

[Alex]

Jira Cloud - Work Management Projects

The following two points are critical next steps to ensure the full usefulness for any project with more than 100 issues/tasks to keep track of:

• Retaining the nesting and hierarchy feature when using a filter: (similar to Software Scrum timelines)
  • https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-698
  • If you can see the Parent of tasks corresponding to the filter (even if the parent does not match the filter) it gives oversight of the greater picture the task relates to in the timeline when looking with that filter, which could be filtering on a person and it's tasks.
    • @Markus Ernst @Gaetan 

• Option to expand and collapse all issue's (similar to software scrum timelines)
  • https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-178 
  • Otherwise it becomes a click fest to see everything and you have to do this anytime the page refreshes.

Vote for these tickets to get any speed on them.

Missing Ticket: @Meg Christolini (would you be able to create a suggestion ticket for this?)

• Ability to see Status and assignee in JWM Timeline
  • We require the same functionality as the Jira Software projects timeline has, in which it is able to show in a glance how far in completion an Epic is and in which state each task is (done/progress/todo), with the addition of the assignee Icon and the crossing away of the task after completion.
    
    • This is a basic timeline feature which should be also available in JWM to make it a very usefull tool to plan and also to show the planning states

Jira Cloud - Software projects
@GaetanThe ticket for Timeline sub-task view of software projects in Jira Cloud, is:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-18677

[Meg Christolini]

Hello all - Thanks for the questions and wanted to acknowledge them with the info I can share. Unfortunately this doesn't include release dates. We will share info around saved views and filtering changes as we approach the release of these capabilities. Here is what I can tell you:

- We have heard the struggles that some users have around displaying hierarchy with grouping and filtering. We are exploring solutions. You can follow here: JWMCLOUD-698

- Saved views are in progress, but without the above issue resolved saved list and timeline views will inherit the user experience of filtered views. 

- Expanding hierarchy by default. We hear you and can see in the data that this is needed. We are exploring solutions keeping performance mind for our largest projects. You can follow here: JWMCLOUD-187 

- Adding hierarchy to the board view is a little complex with the form factor. However we are interested in allowing users to select which levels of the hierarchy they're viewing. You can follow and add thoughts here: JWMCLOUD-25

As a heads up, we will not be maintaining this thread ongoing to provide updates. Please continue to follow JAC and community for more information regarding feature releases and requests. Thank you!

[Jake Steer]

Is this being looked into for the board view as well?

[Micheal Planck]

> in company managed projects 

Does anyone use company managed projects anymore? I thought they were being deprecated in favor of team managed products.

[Gaetan]

@Micheal Planck of course company managed projects are still used. They're much more configurable and customizable than the team managed projects. Where is the official news about a potential sunset of company managed projects?

[Micheal Planck]

I don't have any official announcement; it's just the impression I got from other updates. For instance, the epic parent link changed between team and company, and they're not going to update the company link, so... doesn't that imply they're deprecating company mode?

Or maybe they're just going to have the epic link different in each one, and never allow team managed projects to import CSV files that create epic links, because *reasons*?

Trying to guess Atlassian's design goals, philosophy, or process is a quick trip to crazytown.

[bill.dipaola]

Is this for fixing the nesting of sub-tasks in the List View for Jira Work manager? If so, this is not working for me. Has this been fixed?