Sub-task visible (via swimlanes) on board for new lightweight projects?

[Bryan_Schmiedeler]

My company is just starting to use JIRA. It is a beast.

I have tasks in one Project (used to have tasks in 2 projects). I have tasks that come up that are important but not part of the project. I need somewhere to keep track of them.

I could just make a project; and have some view that that shows both tasks. I would prefer to run a Kanban board for the items that are only done by me.

Basic question, what is the best practice for doing this?

Thanks,

[Tarun Sapra]

Hello @Bryan_Schmiedeler

The best practice here is to have one Kanban board for both types of tasks (tasks belonging to a project and tasks which are important but not part of the project)

Boards are just a view on the issues. Boards display the issues which are fetched by the underlying JQL filter. Thus, you can configure the JQL which covers both types of tasks and feed that JQL filter to the Kanban board and then use that Kanban board. By this approach you wouldn't be required to make an redundant project as you have mentioned

"I could just make a project; and have some view that that shows both tasks" (just use one project, no need of another project, better to create an kanaban board) 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-a-board-764477974.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-filters-764477988.html