Timeline view: Epic -> task -> subtask hierarchy

[Olivier]

Hello,

My team is using Jira Work Management as a project management tool and would like to see the tasks listed under their respective epics and subtasks under their respective tasks (in drop-downs) in the Timeline view.

However, tasks and epics are currently not linked to each other in the Timeline view. They are listed as separate issues. Is there a way to change this?

I saw this question in the community from last year but there didn't seem to be a recent answer about a recent release.

[Philip Käfer]

Same here! Very annoying that it is working on a task->task but not for epic->task!

[John Funk]

Hi Olivier - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You should click on the Give feedback button on the bottom left of the Jira Work Management project and let them know you would like to see the visual of the hierarchy. 

[Sebastian Jaramillo]

was this solved? 

[Olivier]

No, it's not possible in Jira Work Management at the moment.

[Sebastian Jaramillo]

Is there a tentative date for this? 

The Difference  between Roadmap  in Software Project and the Timeline in Business Project, is just the name I reckon...   the code should be pretty similar.  So implementation must be quick. 

In case this is going to take longer,  which template do you recommend me to use If I want to have the List View and the Timeline, but with the Epic / Task / Subtask  grouping available. 

Thanks in advance for your help. 

Regards, 

[Heath Bradbury]

I think we all understand that it's not possible currently, but other threads noted it was coming (last year even) and so really the question is WHEN will we be able to utilize 3 levels of heirarchy in the Business (Work Management) projects? 

@John Funk is there something you can provide us with on that ?

This is super important for me also. 

[John Funk]

Hi @Jane Yeoh  - Any update on this? 

[Deleted user]

Any update? 

[Rachel Wells]

I also need this feature. 
@John Funk @Jane Yeoh  any update?

[Heath Bradbury]

i suspect now that since @Olivier accepted an answer this thread gets very little visibility.... not sure if there's a way to UN-Accept it to make it "unanswered" again? (Sorry @Markus Kleinschmidt for the incorrect tag)

[John Funk]

I have marked it unaccepted. 

[David Hein]

This seems like a basic need to have three levels of hierarchy. Any update?

[Lars Bulow Joergensen]

Hi, another couple of months pasted and still not enabled. Anyone aware of any update to this?

[Jeroen Kuunders]

Would love a solution to this. It's so weird to have the hierarchy in the list view but not have 3 levels of hierarchy on the Timeline. It's also annoying that you lose all hierarchy when searching for something.

What I would like to do is create isolated views of an epic and it's tasks and subtasks that I can embed or share a direct link to.

[Jorge Alejandre]

We need this feature in Jira Work Management. Any updates if/when this is happening?

[Jakub Zemanec]

This is rather vital for managing more than one project. @John Funk can we somehow perhaps escalate this to atl dev team? Thank you kindly for help :)

[John Funk]

Nothing really that I can do that I haven't done already.  :-)

[Marc Van Cauwenberghe]

This is really very frustrating. Any workarounds?

Marc

[Sistemas COAM]

Any workaround??

[Gaetan]

Adding my own up-vote to this request.

[bepriebe]

Adding another upvote. Super frustrating. :(

[Guelmis Martínez]

I cannot believe such a complete solution does not allow us to see epics/tasks/subtasks in the timeline. Its so annoying

[Thomas LUK]

Yes, we have to breakdown things to be executeable which subtask does, cannot view it in timeline is a total BIG FAIL.

[Neil Kyle]

Would also very much like this. The Timeline feature is very useful for myself and my PMO team to manage BA + UX tasks that cross projects and Boards in one place. Epic, Tasks and Sub-Tasks seems a pretty straight forward requirements for this. We are having to use Epics and Tasks only, which isn't ideal at all for grouping things in other views (Board view etc).

Can we have an update on when this will be made available please?

Thanks

[John Funk]

It is coming in May. 

[Su, Christopher]

@John Funk is possible could you point me to release note for May? I see May 7-15 for JIRA release dates, want to confirm it's the one you're referring to: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-release-notes-776821069.html. This is very important for us to plan a critical program which depend on timeline hierarchy support. Thank!

[John Funk]

Hi Su - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

See the comments/updates in this: 

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-111

[Markus Kleinschmidt]

It's just in Jira Software Projects (Kanban team-managed). I don't know why, because it's a very helpful feature.

[Thomas LUK]

You sure? I don’t find it in Jira software timeline showing subtask

[Micheal Planck]

Jira Software shows epic children but not task children.

Jira Work Management shows task children but not epic children.

I am going to say it again: Atlassian does not know how to write a function. They cannot write a piece of code that does the same thing with different parameters; instead, they write every single effect in every single instance sui generis.

Just like they expect us to create every single project from scratch, even when it is a copy of the previous five projects we've done.

They literally do not understand the concept of a function.

[Micheal Planck]

Proof of my assertion: They are rolling out full level nesting for JWM... but not for JSM.

At some in the future, they will rewrite JSM to look like JWM. But they will not simply use the same code to achieve the same effect; they will write new code, with new bugs, and maintain two identical features separately.

Because Atlassian does not understand how to write a function.

[boris]

Any updates on this one?

[Sharon Welensky]

PLEASE do this, so we don't have to buy additional project management tools  :-(

[Dinesh Moodley]

@Lucy Cameron any update on this above please. We need this feature for the timeline view as well

[Lucy Cameron]

I'm just a user! But we've had to find work arounds like just placing the tasks underneath their relevant stories. It gets pretty hairy not being able to collapse all the stories with their related tasks, but I don't think there's another way to do it. 

[Shaili_RVS_Support]

HI @Dinesh Moodley 

If you are open to explore a mktplace app to view issue hierarchy in a timeline view, I can suggest our app

Issue Hierarchy 

The app also allows you to create a hierarchy based on standard jira structure (Epic -> Story/Task -> Subtask) or even with your issue links. You can view %complete progress at each parent level. It roll ups the time tracking fields, story point or numeric fields at each parent level. The Timeline view shows the complete hierarchy of your Issues.

Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member

[Rahma Darraji]

Any updates on this in JWM

[Abby Cooper]

Hi - I'm very interested in this feature. Is there any update?

[weronika.grzejszczak]

Also interested in this feature, newly added stories and tasks are listed on the bottom of the list and not in the epic that is parent to them and to wchich they belong, hard to maintain that, hard to read the timeline properly.

[Joshua Compton]

I vote that this feature is definitely needed! Is there a JIRA card we can vote up?

[John Funk]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JWMCLOUD-111

[Lucy Cameron]

Does this satisfy what you are looking for? Seems like it would...

[Thomas LUK]

I think not the case in here. We are looking for sub task. I think it should has at least 3 level of visibility: epic > story, bug, task > subtask.

Epic should be some major milestone the length might over months; bug, story is the high level of tasks to achieve the epic, might take weeks; subtask is the actual execution task to complete and fix each story and bug, might take days.

[Sharon Welensky]

@Lucy Cameron no - as per previous comment, we desperately need a 3 tier hierarchy to run a good project.