Dashboard - Expose an epic child issues and overall progress based on the number of done vs total

[Ran Wronsky]

Hello,

In my projects, I have configured multiple Kanban dashboards to visualize various epics and their associated workflow statuses. While the current setup offers flexibility in customizing card displays—such as showing linked issues (e.g., blockers)—there is one crucial feature that appears to be missing.

Feature Request:

I would like to request the ability to display the progress of an epic based on its child issues (e.g., stories, tasks, bugs) directly on the Kanban board/card. Specifically:

• Visual Indicator of Progress: Show the completion percentage of child issues (e.g., 5 out of 10 = 50%).

• Direct Access to Completed Issues: Enable easy access to the completed child issues from the epic card.

• Optional Enhancement: Future support for calculating progress based on story points rather than just issue count would be highly valuable.

Thank you for considering this improvement.

[Daniel Franz - JXL]

Hi Ran,

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, and potentially to a slightly different way of visualising your work items and their progress, you may want to have a look at JXL for Jira (I'm on the JXL team).

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your Jira data that allows viewing, inline-editing, copy-pasting, sorting, and filtering by all your work items' fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel, Google Sheets, Smartsheet, or Airtable. It also comes with a long list of further features, including sum-ups of work item data. With sum-ups you can aggregate things like child work items' estimate values and story points, or visualise their progress as measured by their workflow status categories in progress and distribution bars (totals and percentages).

This is how it looks in action with a JQL sheet scope of epics and their children, organised in a collapse-expandable hierarchy, and with a sum-ups configured to show a status progress bar for each epic's child work items:

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views and reports. You have full control over which data you want to show and highlight, and many teams use JXL sheets to augment Jira boards.

I should also add that sum-ups play nicely in combination with many other JXL features, such as configurable work item hierarchy, cascaded grouping by any fields, conditional formatting, and Time in status smart columns.

Any questions just let me know.

Cheers,
Daniel

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Ran Wronsky 

The best way to make Atlassian aware of a feature request is to open a Support Case directly with them at https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/ or to use the Help > Feedback option directly within Jira.

As this is a User community, Atlassian is not specifically monitoring it to find such feedback.

There is already a change request about showing the Epic Progress (per issue count) on cards. You can add your vote to it here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-12717

[Ran Wronsky]

Thanks. I will do that as the dashboard and other widget is not what I'm referring to.

I can extract that info using structure and other tools. My point was specifically on the Kanban board which is used in the daily meetings. 

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Ran Wronsky,

You could create a Jira dashboard, which shows the Kanban board content, and use it in daily meetings. A dashboard can be highly customized, you can add also charts and other metrics, you'll have all the info in one-page... so a great real-time input for daily meetings.

Just see this article as an example:  https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Building-a-powerful-Kanban-dashboard-in-Jira-with-Great-Gadgets/ba-p/1664331

Disclaimer: I am the author of the article, and the examples are with gadgets from the Great Gadgets app developed by my company, but there are many other alternatives on Atlassian Marketplace.

Danut.

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @Ran Wronsky 

If you are fine to explore a mktplace solution to view Epic and its child issues as a dashboard gadget, I can suggest our app

Issue Hierarchy 

The app also allows you to view your project issue hierarchy in a tree view. You can view %complete progress at each parent level. It rolls up the time tracking fields, story point or numeric fields at each parent level. The app can be added to a dashboard as well.

Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Ran Wronsky,

Displaying the epic progress on board cards is not possible.

But, as an alternative, you could try displaying the progress of the epics on your Jira dashboard by using an app from Atlassian Marketplace.

In case you want to try an app, our Great Gadgets has a Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget that allows you to display the progress of your epics in form of tables, heatmap tables or charts of various types. The progress can be by count of items within the epics, by sum of story points, or percentages.

Clicking a value in the table (like one in the Done column) will open a filter showing the issues.

Here are some examples:

See also this article: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/How-to-display-the-progress-of-Epics-or-Initiatives-in-Jira-or/ba-p/2858840

Danut.