How do I add a subtasks dropdown feature on a regular Kanban board?!

[Luke]

I have never seen this before!

Stumbled across this on a very old, archived project, set up as a sort of Project Management board. I was just doing some spring cleaning and saw it and loved it.

How can I take just this feature (the subtasks dropdown within the actual ticket on the board – see below) and add it into a regular 'software development' type kanban?!

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Luke 

Your screen images are from a Work Management type of project, which is a different project architecture/use case than the Software type of project.

The particular feature you are talking about is unique to the Work Management (a.k.a. Business) project type. There is no ability to enable that in the boards that are created for Software type projects.

[Luke]

Aww that's a shame – I'm tempted to make it a feature request as it's so handy! (Or would be for our organizational setup.) 

Thanks for letting me know though. 😊

[Jonas Vernunft]

Hi, same as Luke I am also really interested in the mentioned feature.

Since one year is passed, maybe there are some novelties, I could not find in the configuration yet.

Can you give me an update if the feature is available for boards in software projects?

Best

Jonas 

[Luke]

Hi Jonas, as far as I'm aware (but I'm far from a Jira expert!) this feature was never rolled out beyond the 'Work Management' project type that @Trudy Claspill mentioned. I suppose it would have to go through a formal feature request process and pass a community/internal vote for it to be added. 

[Jack Brickey]

hmmm, those screenshots are unfamiliar to me. would it be possible to share a full screenshot so that I might better understand where these are being viewed?

[Luke]

Did some hunting around and after a while created a similar style board by going into the project management template options at the Create project stage. See screenshot below. 

Might be something to do with the template type? Jira can be really confusing sometimes! When setting it up it does not have a 'business' option as a template but in project settings it shows 'Project type' as 'Business'. 

I'm surprise that Jira tucks away different features for various templates like this with no apparent rationale. Be good if there's a way to enable such a feature for normal Kanban boards.

[Jack Brickey]

@Luke , Trudy's assessment is indeed the reason for the different behaviors. Cheers!

[Luke]

Thanks Jack!