[Status: Launched ๐] Add subtasks to the Board View
Right now only parent tasks are visible in the Board View. It would be really great if we could see all theย subtasksย too. Probably a new advanced filter would do the trick, so that a user could switch between displaying onlyย up levelย tasks or all tasks includingย subtasks. It willย definitelyย help in managing complicatedย goals.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this Jules Bowie, really appreciate your input!ย
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Hi,
Could you provide timeline for when it will be possible to expand subtasks in board?
Hi Chiara Gallo! It's already possible to show subtasks in the new Board view ๐ย
https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/articles/7141262105367-New-Board-View-in-Wrike
It's not however possible to show subtasks separately from the parent task, but hopefully the ability to have them on the board under parent tasks is helpful!ย
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It is possible to show subtasks separate from the parent task, but it requires you to manually add each subtask to the appropriate project/folder. See this comment for reference.
Right now the board view seems unuseable for us to, unless subtasks can be managed separately in board view
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I agree with the many previous colleagues, if the board view can only be used for the parent tasks, and the subtasks will never be individual cards, it makes the board view effectively unuseable for us and more importantly Wirke not sufficient as a project management tool in our company, where we are currently in investigataion phase for a comapany-wide solution.
Marco Leertouwer Alexis Papadopoulos, thank you for adding your feedback to this thread. I'm sorry to hear this is affecting your work, and I've passed your comments on to our relevant team. In the meantime, Travis' workaround might be of help for you - thanks for sharing your expertise, Travis!
If there's anything else we can help you with, please don't hesitate.
Thanks @... for passing the comment on to the Team. Travis' workaround is of little help as adding the location to every subtask that is created is a lot of manual work, which, as far as I can see and as I put in a comment of another article, can't easily be automatized (again, as far as I can see).
It would be great if there would be a general funcionality/behavior that could be triggered on or off, or at least could be more easily automatized, that allows in a project that subtasks inherit real location tags from their parent tasks and not only "ghost tags". It would be further great if there is a possibility to have them visible in the board view only, but not in the gantt or table view, as it creates a lot of unecessary confusion in the table and especially in the gantt view, but is super helpful in the board view.
Furthermore, it would be amazing if in the board view, there would be a behavior that can be defined, that only the "lowest level" of a task shall be visible, so that parent tasks or sub-tasks that they themselves contain sub-tasks shall never be visible, only the "lowest level" of each task. With this, it could be achieved that only those tasks appear, where the project team is actually working on, as usually, when a parent task or sub-task contain sub-tasks themselves, usually when all sub-tasks are completed the parent task is automatically completed as well and there is no need to diplay it as an extra item in the board view when organizing the current work. I know that status changes of parent tasks with regard to the status of their sub-tasks can be automatized, but that makes, currently, the parent task still visible in the board view although nobody in our team is or should be moving it around and it should only be updated with regards to changes to their sub-task status.
I hope I explain myself, its quite difficult to put it in words.. reach out in case there is any doubt always.
I agree entirely to what Alexis has suggested here:
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Hi, I've gone through the entire thread, from 2018 to 2025, I've read at least 20 times that the suggestion has been passed to the relevant team. I just took the decision to look for another software for our company (T4i, Italy). Wrike developing roadmap is slow, lots of useless stuff and small irritating lacks. Business plan is expensive for what it is given, and it's a false light to lure customers to even more expensive Pinnacle plan. Bye bye Wrike
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Hi everyone,
This thread has gotten quite long, so apologies if this has already been addressed. Iโm still experiencing an issue where subtasks do not appear as individual cards in the board view. This makes it quite difficult to apply agile methodologies effectively, especially in complex projects. For example, there may be prototype iterations as parent tasks, and design, build, test as sub tasks. And obviously one may start the design task before the build, but the boards would start all of them at once.
Iโm aware of the workaround involving manually adding โghost tagsโ to all subtasks, but thatโs not a scalable solution and adds unnecessary overhead. Also, it duplicates the tasks to a table of tasks.
Did I understand correctly, this issue has not been resolved yet (after 7 years)? It isn't possible for users to choose whether subtasks are shown separately on the board?
Wow. Big thread to get up to speed with.
Another +1 for this feature, which seemsย veryย basic.
Welcome to Wrike Community, Teemu Nurminen! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. Currently, Wrikeโs Board view does not display subtasks as individual cards. By default, only top-level tasks appear as cards in Board view, while subtasks remain nested under their parent tasks.
However, I have shared your feedback with our team for consideration. Thank you! ๐
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Ill join the chorus of saying that showing subtasks in their own board columns would be very useful. Subtasks are often in different states under the main task.