It would be helpful to have this as an option. We would like to get rid of the scrolling in team-managed projects.

Can you please remove the scroll from my boards? 

Incrivel como desde 2015, com mais de 200 administradores solicitando que a largura da coluna seja configuravel e não foi feito nada. Hoje é ridicula a apresentação do quadro quando ele é gerenciado pela equipe. O minimo era que a tela fosse configurada para que os administrador deixasse da forma como é melhor para sua equipe. Basta que se implemente a opção de alterar e deixar o padrão o comportamento realizado hje, dessa forma os clientes que gostam não seriam impactado gerando feedbacks negativos e para quem quisesse alterar, teria a possibilidade. REPENSEM. Se olharem a imagem é horrivel a tela hj, super estreita e não da pra ver todas as colunas. ENtão o resultado final de vcs, é impossivel para quem possui muitas colunas.

I've been working with Jira for years and since someone came up with this horitzontal scroll it's been a real pain.

I want the columns to adjust automatically as they always did, having a fixed column width makes no sense, having many columns is just a bad implementation of SCRUM.

How can I make the columns adjust automatically to the screen again?

Finally I can see this. Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

However, the columns are too narrow. This ideally would've included some setting to widen the columns to a prescribed width.

Why these things have to be implemented piece meal is beyond me.

This thread is great! I can say my boards are now working great. Sorry for the troubles everyone else is having!

A toggle if you put this rubbish feature back on please!!!

This should be standard practice but Atlassian lumber us with some absolute rubbish changes which slow down Jira.

Some of us dont  find the need  for 30 statuses and scroll bar is rubbish as it was implemented when 6 had a scroll and was unusable.

As for us, what we want is to see the big picture with all columns shown on screen, but what we have is hidden columns and the annoying horizontal scrollbar. 

Please make it configurable on each board so everyone can have what they need !

@509a18d8f8b0
@9702be63357c

Check this out and could need an upvote.

JSWCLOUD-23290

Hello! 

We also need to have a full vision of the whole board without scrolling... Please, make this scroll feature something configurable.

Thank you!

Cmon guys... Please, enable horizontal scrollbar again.

It was enabled before (I had opt-in some time ago) and now the horizontal scrollbar is gone. All teams here complained. Having a squeezed Kanban board is practically impossible to work with. I don't have just "to do, doing and done" states. I have much more and I don't need to see all of them in the "same screen/view". At least on Kanban templates. It's impossible to work with a professional Kanban system without horizontal scrolling.

Guys, you can check my suggested solution that could potentially address both card width resize & horizontal scrolling issues. Votes needed.

JSWCLOUD-23290

Unfortunately I couldn't opt-in because we block access to Google Docs.

That being said, whatever images are being posted are apparently also not showing up.

please enable horizontal scroll bar.

I am a plugin developer and this issue has also affected me a lot, in the end I had to make 2 versions: One for the instances that do not have the board with horizontal scroll and another for the boards where Atlassian has put them... a lot of trouble!
In my opinion, the features that a plugin can do do not need to be implemented by Atlassian, since we are seeing the result here. And more work for me...
https://mraddon.blog/2022/06/22/important-news-in-kanban-combined-wip-for-jira-cloud/

Agree with other posters, one / two weeks ago the new horizontal scrolling feature was useable but the minimum column width was too high so it was scrolling when it didn't actually need to. Only scroll when it really needs it please. 

Today columns on the right hand side are wrapping back round to the left - cannot tell what is Done and what is Ready for Dev. 
Jira is now almost unusable. 

Please remove the wrapping asap. 

Please put the horizontal scroll bar feature back but default it to off and allow users to switch the feature on (in the board settings, or in a user's individual view e.g. under the three dots menu). Allow columns to get fairly narrow before scroll bar appears as a last resort.  

Please, please, please rollback ASAP.

I consider this a breaking update.  Now I can't tell the difference between Done tickets and Coming Soon on our board as they show in the same column.  

The suggestion in this ticket is exactly what is needed.

"

Suggestion

As an agile project manager, it is desirable to have horizontal scrolling available on kanban boards.
It would also be desirable to have some minimum width after which a scroll bar will appears to allow side scrolling.

Create a configuration to toggle this feature ON and OFF.

"

incredible update, thanks ( sarcasm!)

now there is no scrolling
+ fields that do not fit - moved down under other columns, very uncomfortable 

Rollback please.

This is total rubbish for this crap feature to be forced on ALL of us when we don't need.

Our projects can no longer use in calls as the scroll bar is unusable and for some reason is there when adding columns during set up of new workflows Jira is running like a snail since this defect was released - I cannot call it a feature!

If you need a board with 30 columns maybe different boards are required.

Please allow us to have a choice not a rubbish feature to be forced on us all.

Totally agree with Felix, now I сan use our board normally with 67% zoom only. Its very bad implementation and there is no option to сhange it somehow, its not what users requested in this feature.

It seems that this feature has been rolled out with a very high minimum column width, which is causing us a lot of headaches!
 
I do understand the motivation behind the feature request, in that there is a point as which the tickets become too squashed for the board to be usable and introducing a horizontal scroll is a viable compromise, but the new implementation has gone way too far in the other direction.
 
Our main company boards have 11 columns, and this was very comfortable with a window sized around 1300px - 1400px. With the new implementation there is now totally unnecessary scrolling even when full screen on a 1920px wide (1080p / FHD) monitor. I would probably have said below 800px is where it used to become unusable, although I am currently unable to check this on the site since access to the old sizing has been removed.
 
If I'm not mistaken, it also seems like a feature that made the font (and maybe padding) slightly smaller to help the columns fit into a smaller window has been removed. This worked absolutely fine beforehand and was very commonly used, so now it very much feels like we've got unnecessarily large text in unnecessarily wide columns causing an unnecessarily horizontal scroll!
 
I think with a bit of tweaking a sensible solution can be found, however in the meantime please can I request an opt-in/opt-out toggle as detailed in the description of this issue!

Because of that problem, I stopped creating Company managed projects any more, and I only create Team managed projects. Maybe it's time to switch to some competitors software such i.e. Clickup. 

I don't find the add in to make any difference in Chrome or Firefox.  I like the "standup" button which dumps the left column but I still have wasted space and the resize of columns does nothing.  I'd think I have a conflict with some other addon but it works exactly the same (wrong) in both FFox and Chrome  

I believe it.

perfect, thank you, that extension works like a charm I can't believe they still haven't done this

Hey folks! ICYMI, this chrome extension does the trick  : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-jira/adjlkmhgnjccbagimdppnminndehkmgl/related

Hello,

Hope you are doing well. Our team of 37 users have faced this issue today in our company-managed scrum board. Columns became too small to see the header and card names. Very inconvenient! 

Our team demands for the fast fix of this issue!

looking forward to see updates.

Maybe this is the plan:

https://despair.com/products/apathy

Here ya go Jira... 

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_menu_horizontal_scroll.asp

That should fix your 7 year old issue. lol. Sorry - but come on!! Are you still supporting this project?

Hello,
 
I hope you are doing well. I recently faced the same issue on the Jira Kanban board as it does not give the option of Horizontal scrolling on the company-managed template and the default view is way too small.
 
I have already submitted the form that you mentioned twice now but there has been no update. Can you kindly look into this, please? Thank you
 
Regards

We have a sister company on Asana that refuses to switch to Jira because we can't have 15 columns on a company managed project without it looking like it doesn't belong there. 

Any updates on this? Would love to have an on/off button for this instead. Old layout was way better

Kanban Combined WIP plugin/App can manage horizontall scrollbar in Kanban boards

I was contacted by many users complaining about the need for horizontal scrolling. Can we have this toggled as needed on either a user level (preferred) or a board level?

This is a valid feature but apparently many users are not willing to sacrifice the visibility of the entire board

Agree with Melissa Statom, Jared Russum and Boleslaw Nowak. 

Please roll it back or make it configurable.

Please give us a On/Off setting for this feature where we can turn it on or off also, that would be great. As of our team it would be totally desirable to disable the horizontal scrolling - it just doesnt work for us, with the board setup we have. 

Totally agree that previously it was so much easier to glance at the board. I like to see the full picture of tickets in one glance. Now I can't and I have a 32" monitor.

The changing of the Jira board implemented that makes all of the cards bigger, and added horizontal scrolling... has made our boards almost unusable.
You can no longer go to the board and get a 'big picture' view. Now you can only see a few cards on the screen at a time.
This makes using the boards during meetings involve... Change browser zoom level, click on ticket, change browser zoom level back... not the right ticket? close ticket, change browser zoom level, click ticket, change browser zoom level.
If Trellos board functionality was what was wanted for the Jira board - would have been using Trello in the first place.
Jira needs to change it back to the way it was, or at least allow for settings to allow us to choose how we want the boards to work.

I agree with https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-12539?focusedCommentId=2848651&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-2848651

Our team has several columns which makes it difficult to read because the columns have shrunk too much

2 suggestions:

1. Set a default (larger) width and allow horizontal scrolling (just like Trello).
2. Allow the user to set the width of the columns.

Without that feature on Sprint / Kanban view, I am considering using other SAAS for one of my team. Right now we are using Trello but there are no view filters, so we thought about switching to Jira but here we don't have horizontal scroll for multiple columns view.

Why trello have this feature and Jira not??? are you guys kidding?

That is great Sara, thank you.   Definitely not an elegant or permanent solution, but it might be enough to stave off our users until a non-Chrome-specific, non-add-on, non-training-dependant solution becomes available.

To whom it may interest

If you press "Shift" while you scroll the middle wheel of your mouse you'll scroll horizontally.

(You must have the extension "Better JIRA" enabled)

I hope this trick helps at least one person

For Christ sake, a lot of companies are moving from Jira on Premises to Jira Cloud and there is NO WAY to turn on/off a horizontal scroll bar yet?? Jira on Premises has this feature. It is impossible to read the column's titles with more than 10 columns. I have upstream and downstream Kanban together. I simply can't believe Jira Cloud doesn't have this feature... 

Yikes, this still hasn't been done?

One of our departments requires 22 columns.  Half of them are still on tiny little laptop screens, making matters worse.  They (and I) were shocked that horizontal scroll is not an option.  The "Better Jira" add-on doesn't solve the issue as there is still no scroll bar - the only way to scroll is to click and drag on the screen to force the browser to move left/right (terrible user experience).

The functionality of "Better Jira" should just be built into Jira, it's pretty clear (and if fixed column width is enabled, scroll bar should automatically be enabled).

The saddest thing is that you can actually see the scroll bar working perfectly on the screen for about 1/10th of a second before Jira's page formatting removes it.  (can't attach screenshot, apparently, but trust me it's there!)

Can we get this feature, please, Atlassian?

Discussed here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-make-Jira-Kanban-board-scroll-to-the-right-rather-than/qaq-p/1335989

Having an extension enabled is a band-aid.

Some organizations have TIGHT controls on Browser extensions and other they are completely disallowed.

This functionality NOT being enabled OOTB by Atlassian isn't just sad, it's ridiculous.

If a browser extension solves it, why precisely cannot what that browser extension does NOT be implemented by Atlassian itself?
It's not like the browser extension is charging money for their extension, so it's not a "purchase a plugin" excuse.

I respectfully submit to you, @Tejasvita that this is shameful on the part of Atlassian.

Stop ADDING things, and START correcting things, please.

@Tejasvita Madan if this is in the backlog, please change the status accordingly - Future Consideration, not Gathering Interest,

Same as Rob, the min width works, but no horizontal scrolling.  So it just shifts the columns out of view...

Great initiative! The screen resize part works for me but there is no scrolling bar (neither in Firefox, nor Chrome).

Hello All, I am a Product Manager in Atlassian and work on Boards. Thank you all for your feedback and I want to assure you we have this in our backlog. 

Till this is enabled by default, wanted to share with you this extension using which you can use to enable horizontal scrolling in boards  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-discussions/Better-JIRA-Extension-for-Chrome-and-Firefox/td-p/664917

Thank you john.funk1096483712 and team for building this.

Please let me know if this worked / did not work for you. Thank you! 

This would improve my life so much - our kanban board is very hard to scan on a laptop screen.

Please add a horz scroll bar.  This can't be more than few days work...  Please add...

This would be a useful additional feature

As we have made a big investment in Jira and classic projects this feature is critical as we cannot migrate to next gen projects (which does have this feature)

• https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/AddComment!default.jspa?id=1074096

We are in the same situation.  We have 11 columns in our Jira and as many here, we can only fit approximately 10 chars in each column in lower case.

It doesn't make sense to move them to different boards (we've done that and it's very disruptive).   We have to keep switching boards between members during update, not to mention the names of the board do not fit the left nav also.

Maybe a way to OPTIONALLY make the kanban scroll horizontally that way this is not pushed to everyone.  and while at it, allow the width of each card to be configured, that way if I want a card to be 500px and only be able to fit 5 on my screen, let that be my choice.  We often have to choose between what's in the card and what has to go because we can't fit the data.  Also we have to constantly edit titles so they make some kind of sense.

We've been using Jira for years and waiting for this feature to come.  With nearly 1000 users, we pay a pretty penny for this software - that minor feature add is not much to ask.

Thanks.

This would be very helpful. My team works primarily on 15" MacBook Pros and horizontal scrolling would be great.

Please add this.

I need this really bad!

I don't think it makes sense to require users to navigate to multiple Kanban boards for the same Jira project simply because horizontal scrolling hasn't been implemented.

This is not just a matter of aesthetics, but of usability.

Thanks,
Mike

A bit disappointing to see this request was logged in 2015, four years later still not build.

This is not a nice to have feature, this is a must have.

Definately interested in seeing this developed. I hope holding back on this isn't in an attempt to promote Next-Gen – which I think is a great product, but given it has the ability, I cannot see why the horz scroll cannot be implemented in both

Would be a fantastic feature and would make life so much easier with the horizontal scrolling. Hope to see this feature being addressed in the nearest future.

needed feature!

How is it even possible that you do not have this feature in the Kanban board. How is one supposed to read the tickets propperly in a Kanban board with more than 6 columns? I really hope this feature can be added soon!

Jira is COMPLETELY USELESS if we can't see our tickets! Please fix this issue or you will force us to use a product from a different company. It's not what we want and it's not what you want but its the truth!

We really need this function it makes are cards hard to read and we cant switch to next gen project we have to use classic this feature is a must

Is there any ETA at least for the feature? The ticket exists about 6 months already... 

Impossible to have a Kanban without horizontal scrolling. The tickets smushed and completely illegible even with 6 swimlanes. This is a must!

Yes, definitely needed for sure! it gets hard to read the tickets in columns at a glance + columns names turned into abbreviations just to squeeze in any possible info. Terrible 

I concur. This would be great. When we have completed issues, we like to arrange our done column into swimlanes so we can refer to them as completed and testable requirements that we link to using Xray test cases. This means we have quite a few "Done" columns. It would be useful to be able to scroll through these.

I agree with all previous comments.

This would be very very usefull!

It's impossible to work with a professional Kanban system without horizontal scrolling.

This is highly needed.