You can track the metrics of your linear sub-issues as you would track the metrics of your top-level issues. By setting a filter, you can set screenful charts to display information about your sub-issues, top-level issues, or both.
Creating charts from both Linear issues and sub-issues
You can create charts based on tour top-level issues or sub-issues. Here’s an example Task List that contains both issues and sub-issues of a Linear project:
The rightmost column shows the item type: Issue or Sub-issue.
With the charts that support grouping, such as pie chart or bar chart, you can group data by item type. This shows the distribution of your tasks and subtasks in your data:
Here’s an example bar chart, grouped by the item type:
Charts are clickable. You can click a bar to drill into the individual tasks.
Rolling up values from sub-issues
You can roll up values from sub-issues by selecting Parent as the row in the Table chart.
Now each row in the table corresponds to the top-level issue, and the metrics shown in columns are the summaries from the sub-issues. For example, a column can show the total number of sub-issues for a parent, the total number of completed sub-issues, or the number of story points assigned to sub-issues.
The columns are configurable, so you can roll up any available metrics from sub-issues. The progress bar can be used to show the completion percentage of the sub-issues. It can be added to the chart by applying a formula:
Here’s the final chart:
Filtering by sub-issues
In the chart settings, you can include or exclude sub-issues using the item type filter:
Clicking Set filter opens the filter modal:
When you select Sub-issue, the chart is filtered accordingly.
Similarly, you can also filter by sub-issues’ parents (top-level issues):
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