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Is it possible to setup sub-tasks to automatically be created when a parent task is created? If so, how?

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April 28, 2014

Is it possible to setup sub-tasks to automatically be created when a parent task is created? If so, how?

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April 28, 2014

There are a couple addons that provide this through a workflow post-function. Create a post-function on the "create" workflow transition and configure it to create the sub-tasks

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.jira.cot

https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GRV/Built-In+Scripts#Built-InScripts-Createasub-task

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April 28, 2014

There are some things you need to be careful with, see How to create subtasks on initial issue create.

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