Company Managed Epic and Task Child Dates

[Frank]

Hi there

Hoping somebody might be able to guide me in the right direction as most of the articles i am finding don't appear to help and community posts i've come across are a few years old.

I am experimenting with a company managed scrum project and setting up sample Epics with associated Tasks.  I see that irrespective of the Task start and due dates, the Gantt chart shows their dates as the length of the sprint.  The setting for Child level issue scheduling is enabled.  Is there a way to separate the sprint from the Task dates to better reflect each Task in the Gantt view without using a team managed project and disabling the sprint/backlog features?

This article appears to reference "Schedule child issues by dates" but i don't see this option in either company or team managed projects.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-child-issue-planning-for-kanban-teams-on-the-roadmap/

Thanks

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Frank and welcome to the community,

If you go on your active sprint board and follow the instructions on the page you are referring to, you will see the above image:

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

And according to this https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-18668 your child issues will always be seen with the start and end date of the sprint:

Once you expand the epic, you will see the stories/tasks and any existing dependencies. If you have scheduled (with dates) sprints in the backlog, the sprints will be displayed in the header of the roadmap. If the story-level issue start/end date has been assigned to a scheduled sprint, each issue will automatically display on the roadmap in alignment with the sprint dates it is assigned (and not from the start/due date fields, if they are being used).
Example: if a story/task is assigned to "sprint 1" with dates 02/11/22 - 12/11/22, the story/task will be displayed that it will start and end to be delivered in that sprint timeframe.
Given Jira Software is an Agile project management tool, this follows closely with the Scrum framework, where work is scoped to be delivered within the timeframe of a sprint. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/schedule-work-for-scrum-teams-on-your-roadmap/

[Frank]

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ and thanks for the detailed response.

That does make sense.  Given this is how it is designed, it appears that in order to see child level dates on the roadmap, the only option is to use the team-managed view then.

I also see that another suggestion that I will monitor that might assist anyone else looking: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-23411