Prevent grouping under parent card in kanban board

[Chris Brown]

Hi

I've created a kanban board. I only want to see issues at a certain level.

In the image below, I'm just interested in the "Child" issues. However they are grouped under the "Parent" issue in each column on the board.

How can I stop Jira from doing this? I've looked through all the Board settings and filters and can't find any obvious way of doing this.

The reason I want to stop the grouping is because I really want to use the ranking feature, which only allows changing the rank within that parent group.

Many thanks!

[Humashankar VJ]

Hi @Chris Brown 

Typically, this grouping occurs due to hierarchy configurations or issue links.

To display only the child issues, modify the Kanban board filter to explicitly exclude parent issues. For example, if the parent issues are Epics, you can update the filter to include only non-Epic issues using the JQL query "issuetype != Epic".

Otherwise, if you're working with custom issue types or specific parent-child relationships, you can use the query "parent is EMPTY".

Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
Warm regards