Please make subtasks in timeline visible

Please add this

Please add this

Please someone can do this?

Dear Jira team,

This feature would help us greatly, and you already have it in Jira Work Management. So why don't you have it in Jira Software?

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/FqWX4nbp

I understand that for Atlassian this is a business imperative to differentiate standard and premium licenses. It would be great having subtasks in timeline at least when you have premium licenses because advanced roadmaps are, as its own name indicate, advanced: it has a lot of useful functionalities but also it is quite more difficult to use than a simple timeline view.

For now I'm using the list function on the board. This can also display subtasks. It is also not necessary to synchronize changes. The planner, on the other hand, can display several projects at the same time.

bb3b5f443b59 would be great to get an update on those  
Especially now, when I can also have sub-tasks in Plans and subtasks in Lists, it feels like Sub-tasks on the Timeline view in the Board is a big missing component.

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Hello,

Last update on this was just over 1 year ago, happy birthday! Could we please get the update that was promised "in a few months time"?

With over 1600 votes there is clearly demand for this feature.

Thanks
Joe

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Dear Jira team,

we have started evaluating Jira as our project mgmt tool, but in absence of the sub-tasks showing up on timeline the sub-task function is of negligible benefit. Creating tasks and stories just to bring these on timeline is a huge negative. Is there any other feature in standard plan to activate it? 

Agree with all the comments.  Sub-tasks not being in the timeline view to expand along with Epics and Stories means my developers have trouble finding them and we end up with them creating "stories" that are really sub-tasks because they don't realize they are there when multiple devs are collaborating across a single story under an Epic.  The work around it to make Stories Epics which defeats the entire purpose of the hierarchy.  3 levels in all views is helpful.

And we shouldn't have to pay for Plans and leave our boards to get visibility to our work items that are already in the system.  That just makes it more difficult for everyone.

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Same here, please add subtasks to the timeline.

• This reminds me of the Reporter field, which was missing in Advanced Roadmaps for quite some time. 
• Then it was available all of a sudden. 
• Who would ever come to the conclusion (at feature definition) that Reporter is so irrelevant that it would not even be available within Roadmaps?!?

I join 94bcb125c2cc . Please please please do something to display sublevel tasks. Without the possibility they are completely useless.

I add (again) my voice to this request. Could the Jira Team provides us an update (nothing new since ** the 22 January 2024) ?

Until now, I don't recommand Jira Cloud around me, and always speak about this example of lack of answer. I think you could earn a lot of customer fidelity by answering this kind of issue.

Regards.

Continuing to echo other users - this should be a very basic feature. Why is there no urgency to make this a function in the timeline view? Even moreso, not to have an update since the beginning of this year seems a bit ridiculous. 

Echoing and agree - The timeline view provides little value without being able to schedule and view below Story level. This basic use case does not seem to align with a premium feature tier. Please make this change it would improve Jira into being a better development and project management tool.

I agree with many others here: Timelines not showing subtasks makes them unusable for all non-trivial projects. Its beyond me why people had to invest time to implement Timelines in the first place, if such a trivial feature wasn't implemented in over 4 years. 

Only allowing this to be available for timeline on plans (which requires a premium subscription) is not acceptable. This should be available within normal Jira Work Management Timelines.

Adding my support on this, after spending a fair amount of time fiddling with my timeline settings to try to get my child subtasks to show up. Not being able to see them in the timeline seems such a basic and essential feature for scheduling. Please make it happen 

Echoing and agree - The timeline view provides little value without being able to schedule and view below Story level. This basic use case does not seem to align with a premium feature tier.

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it is confusing to users as next-gen Business Projects (formerly Jira Work Management projects) support this

Sub-tasks on the timeline is a must. I don't understand how this can stay open for 4-5 years without so much as an update.

Dear Jira Team,

Thanks for the fabulous product. But I am wondering does it take 4.5 years to consider a change so much needed and being supported by other products in the market? Unbelievable!!!

https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/JST-1014572

Timeline feature in Jira is great, adding subtasks will make life easier for everyone. Specifically if they are child of parent tasks already in the timeline. We can hide non associated subtasks but parent related ones would be very helpful.

Please add sub-task to Timelines just as you did for the backlog

Can someone tell me, with the release of displaying subtasks in work management projects timelines, are there any plans to release this feature into Software projects?)))

Having sub-tasks on the timeline will make the timeline useful.  Right now it is not useful (as in I do not use the timeline) because you cannot see all of the work on the timeline so sub-tasks cannot be scheduled like the other types can.

If someone responsible for scheduling features please make sub-tasks visible and work on the timeline.

Maybe this feature is a sub-task and it doesn't get scheduled because you cannot see it on the timeline.

Hi,

one more vote from my side - is one of the reasons why we avoid using subtasks.

We need this feature for cross-functional team planning on a quarterly timeline in Software projects. 

So why is this feature not yet available? It is very useful and I can't imagine why it would take so ling to integrate in Jira cloud. Please release this soon!

This ticket as well as several other tickets and documentation indicates that you can view Subtasks on the Premium version in the Plans feature. I have the Premium license and am using Plans and am not able to expand the heirarchy to drill down to the subtask level. I can't find any clear documentation or settings that would enable this level of drill down either.

The only thing I can see related to subtasks is start and end date bars inherited on the Task level for subtasks beneath them with no way to actually view or drill down to the subtask that has those dates assigned. This is very misleading and also not very helpful at a detailed level. I find it easier to view and navigate to subtasks on the traditional Timeline because at least there I can click on the Task and view the subtasks in the preview screen on the right. I'm using a traditional Epic > Task > Subtask heirarchy so why is this not displaying the full heirachy in Plans Premium version as is indicated here?

EDIT: I finally found how to enable Subtask drill down in Plans. It's under the Filters option at the top, you can set the Heirarchy to Epic to Subtask. For some reason it's not set up this way by default and I really had to dig and just stumble upon it to figure this out. This could be way better documented.

Im shocked this is still open

subtasks are a must have if we are going to use timeline feature in JIRA.

As a Project Manager working with software teams in JIRA, it is absolutely non-sensical that ALL tasks, regardless of type, are not visible on a Timeline. This is just the most basic, basic, project management 101 requirement to make any timeline feature of any value at all. That this is something that Jira product managers do not accept shows that you don't really understand project management. 

I get it, software developers like to work differently, Agile is more flexible, blah blah blah. But that doesn't mean they have to have invisible tasks that disappear on a timeline! That is just absurd.  

Hey all,

Is there any other existing (e.g. without a paid upgrade) way to visualize subtask's dependencies that I'm not aware of? Because in Timeline, I can visualize the dependencies between Tasks and Stories. However, if the dependency is able to be made, I would believe that it should be able to be visualized as well, which is not the case for subtasks, I don't think. Please let me know if I'm mistaken. Thanks!

Still waiting

Everybody still waiting Atlassian

....still....still...waiting. I had to also turn all my subtasks to tasks. 

Tomorrow it will be the birthday of this ticket, opened on January 16th, 2020. I still cannot believe Atlassian has not fixed this problem and is causing teams so much trouble. I had to turn all my subtasks into tasks to use the timeline properly and keep stakeholders truly updated and with enough visibility. 

Atlassian when are you going to do something about this?

So... after years of frustration on this and seeing countless comment after comment of everybody experiencing the same. A breakthrough. Not sure which actual product/SKU "Plans" are under as far as what license you have to have - but in the Timeline under Plans you can do this really cleanly. Finally. Finally we have roadmaps down to the subtask level. Mockup below, blue issues in the blur out are subs and if they had dates they would show on the right too... granted there is no good "print view" or ability to zoom out to see the entire timeline but it's a start. Well I guess it looks like I can paste a screenshot, but then I get an error saying I don't have permission to add an attachment sorry. 

The limit of 2 levels force me to switch to on another tool more powerful then timeline. Once switched I create the items there so Jira tool loose the driver role in the department tools asset

No need to add any more detail to this request than what has already been requested by everyone below! Please add this feature, subtasks are pretty much useless without it. Thanks

You shouldn't allow a field to make an subtask if you can see it in the timeline.  Please fix this.  Will it take that much effort?  Or did it in itself generate that much revenue?  I would think pleasing my customers would generate more income by adding more value.

Whats really funny about this one - it really should have been there all along. Its completely a no brainer. And this issue has been here festering for just how long now?
BASIC FUNCTIONALITY REQUEST: "Hi there! Are we ready yet?"
ATLASSIAN(Three years later): "Still trying to decide if you are really needed. Please hold."

Use case: I dont have premium and our organization will not invest in it. The subtasks show the actual work that we are doing on the tasks and tracking the target dates on those subtasks helps roll up to assessing the health of our overall timelines on kanban projects.

Currently 4th highest votes for a feature request, please add it Atlassian.

Created 16/Jan/2020.

I think I just follow issues like this out of morbid curiosity.

We've got fields you can edit on the backlog now 🙄 … but we still can't see subtasks in the timeline.

Having the 3 layer hierarchy on the timeline will be so helpful.  Yes we can access subtasks through other means but the timeline view enables us to inspect the same data in a visual way.

We use Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Sub-Tasks to describe our work, using the hierarchy to help with both accountability and reporting. While we can manually tally the overall start and end dates for a story, it seems unnecessary to do that outside of the tool when we've articulated the work as sub-tasks to a story that could easily be displayed providing a valuable visual of the work. I'm working on a single story with 58 sub-tasks that spread over the next four weeks – it seems a shame to lose all that fidelity because the tool doesn't support something that is often requested and seems trivial to implement. 

Currently building a plan with multiple dependencies, even on the subtask level! Would love to be able to see all the task dependencies

The Timeline function in standard Jira is virtually useless without access to all three tiers in the standard plan. I can understand that not all would use this feature, but to restrict it's use, I simply don't understand.

Likewise, the requirement to use epics and not just stories (or other standard issue types) is completely beyond me? Why make this decision for me? There are numerous free simple Gantt systems out there, why push your customers into the arms of the competition? It's not like I'm asking for premium planning features, but a simple Gantt function is not such a requirement. 

Pretty please with sugar on top: Provide us with a useable timeline function.

I'd love to have this feature, currently I have an awkward workaround.

I want my senior leadership team and product manager to be able to look at the epics we're working on, and be able to drill into those to just see user stories, but no more, they don't care about the low level details we have in the tasks we do.

It would be great if I could use subtasks to each user story to achieve this, but subtasks would render this impossible to see the timeline of tasks, to organise our work at a low level.

So instead, I create tasks, manually link them to stories using "related to" link, and use the filters at the top of the board to filter for just user stories (for SLT/PM), and quick filters to see tasks belonging to a specific user story (for engineers).
This is a lot of faff setting up appropriate board filters on an ongoing basis, when if I could just expand and collapse the user story in the same way epics expand and collapse, this would be a lot simpler and use the correct semantics of user stories having subtasks in order to complete them

It's Christmas time, maybe Atlassian will look at their customer's whish list

They probably couldn't drill down to the sub task to see this requirement, so they forgot

This is critical. I also wish you could use the timeline view for projects set up with only stories and subtasks. Why does it only work for Epics and Stories? 

This is an important necessary tool for project management reporting to executives.  This should not take a huge amount of development, as this worked in the past.  

it's insane how much of a low hanging fruit this feature is! 

I created a potential solution to this in Coda (disclosure: I work there). Coda acts as an extension of your Jira issues. After syncing in your Jira issues into a structured table in Coda, you can view them on a timeline layout where you can drill down into a parent issues' subtasks. Here's a short video showing this in action and the associated template.

Seems like it is visible in planer, but why dont you extent this to the timeline ? shouldnt be that difficult?

This should be a basic feature.

For those who really need this feature, as this is not implemented in "basic" roadmaps, my suggestion would be to jump up to Premium plan tier which includes "advanced" roadmaps, or, you could use a third party addon like BigGantt or Structure.Gantt which are excellent alternatives. Obviously this means investment, but again, if you really need it, then you have choices.

My team migrated away from Jira for project management alltogether because of the inability to have a clear overview of subtasks in the timeline. Is there any chance that this feature will at least be attampted to be implemented now that there is a new assignee or is this just a hot potato that gets thrown around and given to a person until the person leaves the company?

To be honest, I am pessimistic this feature will be released. 1000++ vote still not in progress. This feature is very important to us, without this the timeline is useless.

Food for thought …

I just finished merging a company that was on Jira Premium into a company that is not. They used Premium to get better a better view of plans because it was easier to upgrade an existing solution than license a better one under their previous owners.

On the other side of the merger we were able to have a more comprehensive discussion about options. These little annoyances in Jira (and the generally poor integration between "Plans" and Jira proper) add up to enough that we had universal agreement that it's better to license Productboard for about the same money to get more features that are easier to use.

Team Atlassian, it's time to get your act together. Your product just keeps getting more convoluted and unpleasant to use.

Hi - the requirement for sub-tasks to be visible in Timeline, is useful for stakeholders.  It allows the easy visibility of the tasks underpinning the overall Story/Epic and what state they are in and associated forecasted timeline.

Without this, the real story and effort, is not able to be consumed by anyone visually through Timeline, others need to talk about the effort to stakeholders and communicate, which makes for a disjointed working process.

Ultimately we want to share the info/data with others, so they can self-serve for consumption. 

1000% Echo David DeTomaso!!!

This would be a very useful feature for us.  We need more granularity than just Epic/Task and it would be very helpful to view the start/end dates of sub-tasks in the timeline.

Can we visible subtasks in timeline

So it would appear that Advanced Roadmaps and the Planning timeline function are separate products. The Premium subscription appears to provide the Planning product which gives everything that this Jira is about.

As @Another Pissed Offson mentions, Atlassian get you in the details and scaling.

But TBH, our costs moving from Jira Server to the Cloud went down sufficiently to fund the Premium service so ...

Any update on this?

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I can confirm that Advanced Roadmaps, also known as Plans in Jira, is capable of displaying information down to the sub-task level. I have been using it for a long time.

988 votes puts this in the top 8 voted issues, and just 1 of those is In Progress. https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20JSWCLOUD%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20votes%20DESC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC

I would say that probably subtasks first need to be able to be able appear on the backlog, but after that this should be the priority. We also use Advanced Roadmaps but having to create a plan there and switch to it to see the progress with subtasks is not ideal.

Advanced roadmaps allows you to see sub-tasks HOWEVER the timeline (which used to be roadmaps) within the Jira project does not show you sub-tasks. Only Epics + Story/Task/Bug.

I would like to have the option to see sub-tasks within the timeline view for each Jira project outside of the advanced roadmaps so teams do not have to leave their project to view the additional roadmap in plans.

@ fbff95e600cc , we are on Advanced Roadmaps, but the best Atlassian has been able to give us so far is

Subtasks in the Timeline with Advanced Roadmaps ? (atlassian.com)

which is essentially to convert sub-tasks into tasks

Yes, we are on Premium Software, Standard Service.

I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but there are a few references to it that I've come across. 

You can see an image on Atlassian's overview of Advanced Roadmaps at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/advanced-roadmaps/overview#what-are-scenarios-in-advanced-roadmaps (about 3/4 down the page). 

They also have this help topic about how to display subtasks on Advanced Roadmaps. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-display-subtasks-in-an-advanced-roadmaps-plan-1103431441.html

And this one that again doesn't show it but shows how to set it up. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-display-sub-tasks-in-Advanced-Roadmap-view/qaq-p/1929196

Others from non-Atlassian sources on Google as well. 

Maybe it'll get pushed to standard users eventually...

@fbff95e600cc If that's the case, why the heck wouldn't Atlassian just come here to shut us down and reply saying that the Premium Plan contains the ability to view subtasks on the timeline? Sounds like a missed opportunity for them to push the premium plan onto an audience who's been screaming loudly for over a year for this very feature. Not saying you are incorrect on your theory, but it would seem like we'd already know. Plus, it goes against the statement they made above in August 2022... I think it's time for another update from @Rathesh Richards in my book.

Is your team on the Premium plan? It has Advanced Roadmaps which appears to have this functionality. That would explain why Atlassian isn't eager to roll out this feature; they'd like their customers to pony up twice as much money monthly.

Yes, I can see Epic > Task > SubTask in my Timeline view.  On Cloud version.  I wish I could upload a photo of what I'm seeing but when I click Attachment, nothing happens.  Feel free to reach out to me directly if you wish and I can show you.  allie.stewart@lauramac.com 

@Allie Stewart, so in your Timeline view, you can see Epic, the Tasks under the Epics, and the Sub-tasks under the Tasks ?...

I can only see Epics and Tasks... I find it time-consuming to have to open up a new pane or window to see the sub-tasks under a task, and manage them.

What am I missing?  I can see and schedule my sub-tasks in the Plan.  Using Filter for Epic to Subtask.

It would be phenomenal to see the subtasks show up on the gantt chart- game changer!

Please add this, very important and really distracts from the whole planning/Jira quality. 

You have an awesome product in JiraSoftware cloud. I'm a new user preparing to onboard a small team with Jira and I'm quite sure visibility of subtasks in timeline and backlog would have an outsized impact on the quality of dialog in our team syncs. It would also justify the amount of time I'm putting trying to deliver complete project configurations (I want folks to readily see from the project to the sub-task details).

Thanks for all the work you are doing. Hope you make this feature live on the Standard plan soon. Cheers

We would like to see this functionality for following reasons:

• We have quite some subtasks (20 to 30) under specific User Stories and hence would like to be able to
  • drill down to the subtask-level to see what is in the User Story
  • see flow and inter-dependencies between these subtasks

Timeline is the perfect place to show an integrated view of a roadmap execution. Large stories (that cant be split) tend to have a lot of subtasks and those subtasks in turn tend to blaock other tasks or stories. 

This new In depth view will allow for complex roadmaps to be handled in a more effective way.

Wir brauchen diese Funktion unbedingt!

please enable this, should be fairly simple