How can I move stories across the board with their subtasks?

[Jessica Torres]

I don't particularly care about the status of subtasks. I just want to see the actual story moving across my board. So even if I have to remove the visibility of subtasks through the workflow that would be fine. I just don't understand how to do this. I just want to see and move stories on my board and leave the subtasks inside the story but not visible on the board, if that makes sense. Has anyone accomplished this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

I prefer to have a board where you have the flexibility for users to see things with or without them.  But if it's a board just for you, or you really do want permanently rid of them from the board you can easily do that too.

The flexible option:  Create a "quick filter" on the board for "issuetype in standardIssueTypes()".  That will hide the sub-tasks with a single click, enabling the view you want, and you can go back to seeing everything with another click.

The nuclear option:  Add the same clause to the board filter with an "and", so it never selects sub-tasks at all.

[Jessica Torres]

Thank you for that. That seemed like the perfect solution at first. However, it still keeps the subtasks in their own status separate from the user story. I guess what I'm also asking is to keep the sub-tasks moving right alongside the user story they belong to.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, ok, that's different.

If you want the sub-tasks to change status as the parent changes (as columns are just collections of status), you need some code that will transition the sub-tasks as the parent is transitioned.

I'd use ScriptRunner (there are other apps that can do this) to build a "transition sub-tasks" post-function for use in the parent issue's workflow.

[Jessica Torres]

Ok, this is getting a little more complicated than I anticipated. I'll look into it. Thanks!