How to separate the parent from the subtasks

[Gabriella Howard]

My company works a lot with the columns we have yet to figure out how to have the task as well as the subtasks go into the to do , doing , done etc. columns separately the the parent and ALL subtasks to that column? Thanks!  

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Gabriella Howard 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

I'm not sure I understand your question:

how to have the task as well as the subtasks go into the to do , doing , done etc. columns separately the the parent and ALL subtasks to that column?

Are you saying that you want the status of the tasks and their child subtasks to be synchronized so that a task and its subtasks will always be in the same board column?

Or are you saying that the task and its child subtasks are all appearing in the same column even though they are set to different Status values?

Do you see this in all projects or just this one project?

What type of project does this concern? Get that information from the Type column on the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

Are the subtasks assigned a different status than the status of the column in which they display?

Can you provide a screen image of what you see?

Can you provide a screen image that shows the mapping of Status value to columns (applicable to Software projects only)?

For a Business project in the default board for the project the subtasks display nested under their parent task, and both the parent and subtask appear in the column that represents the parent's Status, even if the subtasks are set to different Status values. That can't be changed.

[Alex Kovell]

I think you can do this with an automation using a trigger and branching

1. Trigger: "Issue transitioned"
    From Status: Leave this field blank
    To Status: Add all that are relevant

2. IF Condition: "Issue Type" field. Triggering the rule is a Task.

3. Branching: "Branch rule / related work items". Select "Children" as the related issue.

4. THEN: "Transition Work Item". Select Copy from Trigger Work Item as the Destination Status.