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BigPicture, BigGantt, time spent of subtasks not shown in parent task

Alexander Pappert

I have the following Task structure in jira:
Tasks - no worklog allowed
Subtasks - all worklog is here

Jira itself shows the worklog sum of subtasks in the parent Task.
In Gantt, the worklog of the parent Task is empty.

Is it possible to Display the worklog sum in the parent?

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Patryk-SoftwarePlant

Hi Alexander,

Yes, it is possible. You can use aggregation to sum up values on the children-tasks and display them on the parent-task. You have to navigate to the View >> Column Views >> Manage Column Views. Select the column view that you want to customize and add aggregation on the field (see the screenshot).

Let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers,

Patryk

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Patryk-SoftwarePlant

Hi Alexander,

Let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers,

Patryk

Alexander Pappert

Hi @Patryk-SoftwarePlant

it doesn't work.

Maybe it is something with my gantt configuration, because Task ans Subtasks are not shown with the + Symbol like in your documentation:

Patryk-SoftwarePlant

Alexander,

I'm not sure what exactly you would like to have but on this screenshot, I can see only tasks on the same level (no sub-tasks). In this case, the aggregation will not work as there is no children-tasks.

Maybe this article on how to create a manual structure will be helpful.

Cheers,

Patryk

Alexander Pappert

@Patryk-SoftwarePlant

Perfect

Now it works

José Hijon

Hi Screenshot_12-5-2026_134251_geagroup.atlassian.net.jpeg

I see a couple of issues with this feature that might limit basic funcionality:

I'm doing this to agreggate progress %, so I'd choose the "average without parent" option, so that parent would reflect the average progress of all children.

- Issue 1: progress is not weighted, if I have 2 tasks, one takes 30 days and the other 1 day, they weigh the same on the average (I set task 1 to 100% and task 2 to 0%, parent progress is 50%).

- Issue 2: visibility and actual tasks progress - This is related to the column/field itself - Now I have the Progress [AVERAGE %] column displaying text values ("20" if 20% progress), I was wondering why this would not be displayed correctly on gant chart, turns out it is a different value (if I got to each parent, open the pop-up faceplate, the field "Progress" is not fulfilled).

Hope the issues are clearly reflected, let me know if any clarification is needed! Thank you in advance

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