Can Due Date of an Epic be updated based on the Due Dates of its child items?

Question

Hi guys - I am looking to have 'Due Date' field of an Epic updated automatically based on the information I have for its child items.

For example: If Due Date of Task 1, linked to Epic A, is January 29th, I want the Due Date of the epic to be January 29th. If I create another task under this epic, Task 2, with a date of March 3rd, I want Epic A to show its Due Date as March 3rd.

Anna-BigPicture · Answer

Hi @Federico Rocca

If you consider plugins, BigPicture (PPM tool) can provide the solution you are looking for. It’s a comprehensive tool that supports project management in every phase, helps to plan, manage and track the projects. One of the plugin functionality is automatic parent task scheduling based on children's duration or tasks dependencies, which ensures that there is no unnecessary standstill in your project and that its lifespan is just right. If you have any questions, just tag me in this thread.

Dmitry Barsky · Answer

Is there really no way to show the "Due date" of the child item or the rollup to the Epic on the timeline?

From what I can tell the only way to have anything on the timeline is to add a Due date to the epic manually.

I hope that I'm missing something and this can be enabled.

Sven Fuelster · Answer

Dear Atlassian team,

every project management software has the capability to calculate the start and end dates of an enclosing task from the start and end dates of the subtasks. Not having this is a bug.

Kind regards,

Sven