How can I remove/delete a "task" on a board?

[Darnell White]

I have a task/job on one of my boards that i need to delete because it no long needs to be done. All I seem to be able to do it move it from lowest priority to highest priority but I cant delete. Any suggestions?

[John Funk]

Hi Darnell - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

First, let me say that in my opinion, it is never a good idea to delete issues. 

What we do instead is to add a status in the workflow for Discarded or Aborted or Abandoned or something like that. Those statuses would be a Done status category and you should set the Resolution to Obsolete or Won't Do or something like that. 

[Jack Brickey]

Hi Darnell, welcome to the Community.

So you should really never (actually rarely ever) delete issues. If the case you have outlined I would be better to set to Done status and choose a Resolution as maybe "Won't Do" or maybe you create a "Cancelled" status if this is something that is done alot.

now if you want to delete even still then you will need delete permissions for which you need to chat w/ your admin. the delete option is found under the ellipses of the detailed issue view.