How to configure a board (Kanban or Scrum) to hide sub tasks
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Summary
By default, Kanban boards or Sprints from Scrum boards display any type of issues including subtasks:
Example of Kanban board
Example of Sprint
This article explains how to hide/remove sub tasks from Kanban boards or Sprints.
ℹ️ Note that the Scrum Backlog page always excludes sub-tasks as explained in the documentation Using your Scrum backlog. For this reason, the solution mentioned in this article does not have any impact on this page.
Environment
Jira Software Server/Data Center 8.0.0 and any higher version.
Solution
The solution is the same whether you are trying to hide subtasks from a Kanban board or Sprints:
From the board, click on Board > Configure to access the Board configuration
Go to the General configuration menu, look for the Saved filter, and click on Edit Filter Query
Edit the JQL query associated to the filter by adding AND issuetype != Sub-task at the end of it, and save the filter
By excluding the issue type "Sub-task" from filter used by the board, sub-tasks will no longer be displayed:
From the Kanban board
Or From the Sprints (if the configuration change was made to the Agile board)
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