Fixed Structure View

[Mike]

Igor,

The Fixed Structure View is looking good, but is there any way it can
be extended to show siblings when drilling down on an issue in the
issue view?

For examples I have a structure like the following:

Parent Issue
Parent Issue > Child 1
Parent Issue > Child 1 > Grandchild 1
Parent Issue > Child 2
Parent Issue > Child 2 > Grandchild 2

When I drill down to Grandchild 2 I'm only able to view Child 2 and
the Parent issue in the structure, but I would expect to see also
Child 1 and Grandchild 1.

Thnaks,
Michael

[Igor Sereda]

Mike,

Thanks, good question.

On the Structure Board, you can select any issue and Fix the widget on
it. In terms of your example, what you need is select the Parent Issue
and use pin icon to switch to Fixed View on that issue.

On the issue page, technically we could do the same. However, we
decided to allow Fixed View there only on the issue being viewed, so
the pin icon works slightly differently. The idea is that when you
view an issue, you need to see what it's part of (the parents) and
what it consists of (the sub-issues).

I can see the benefit of fixing the view on some parent issue, such as
in your case - however, it must be carefully thought through to avoid
confusing everyone about how it works. There are multiple use cases -
the user navigates back and forward, changes current structure, and so
on. I don't think fixing the view on an arbitrary issue - like it's
done on the Structure Board - would work.

If you have any ideas about how the UI for selecting the target issue
of the fixed view could look like, or what would be other related
cases, please share.

Kind regards,
Igor

[Mike]

Could it possibly be an option of the structure itself, or something
that can be toggled from the widget on the issue (i.e: Fixed Parent
View only)?

As long as it's something that can be configured as a default for our
users then I'm fine with that approach.

[Igor Sereda]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your suggestion... It may actually work. We also plan to have "View Configurations" or "Views", which is a named configuration of the structure widget - mainly selected columns. It would be possible to assign a default view configuration to a structure. So if we make this "Fix structure on the issue page at level N" setting a part of the, it would work too.

Related issue: http://jira.almworks.com/browse/HJ-471

Kind regards,
Igor