How to hide/remove the Create Subtask button on Jira issues
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Summary
For some use cases, the Subtasks are not required in the project. In this case, Jira administrator would need to remove the "Create subtask" button from Jira issues so that it prevents users from creating subtasks in the project.
Environment
Jira Data Center on any version from 9.0.0
Solution
The ability to create a subtask depends on whether there are any sub-task issue types in your project's issue type scheme. In order to remove the ability to create sub-tasks in the projects and, consequently, remove the "Create subtask" button from the issues, the sub-task issue type must be removed from the project Issue Type scheme by following the steps below:
Make sure that the Project does not contain any issue of sub-task type, otherwise it will not be possible to remove this type from the project issue type scheme
If the project contains any issue of such type, you will need to either delete it, or move it to a new type
Select Project Settings > Issues > Types
Click on Actions > Edit Issue Types
Find the subtask issue type and move it to the right column (Available issue types)
Click on Save
Open a Jira issue in the Project, click on the More menu, and confirm that the action to create sub-tasks is no longer there:
When doing this, it'll affect all the projects that are using the Issue Type Scheme used in the project. If this change should only occur on a specific project, you'd need to create a separate issue type scheme as per Add, edit, and delete an issue type scheme.
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