Sub-Task Templates?

Question

Really liking Jira Work Management so far. The simplification of just tasks and sub-tasks I think will make it easier for my team to adopt.

I'd love the ability to add different sub-task templates but don't think that's possible? I can create new issue types on the task level however.

Is there a plugin or future or plan in the road-map to support this? Alternatively is there a way to populate the description field with pre-defined templates when editing?

Thanks!

Brett Tomes · Answer

Hi Oliwia,

Thankyou for your reply.

I think your plugin would indeed help us solve the issue however I don't think we could justify the price given we have a large amount of Jira users but this is only for a small select team.

Was really hoping for an out of the box solution.

Brett Tomes · Answer

Thanks for your reply Emma!

Not quite was the workflow I was after.

We tend to work with campaigns. So the campaign would be on the task level.
Under a campaign there might be particular outputs such as brochures, posters etc, each of which would be a subtask. The type and amount of subtasks varies for each campaign (i.e it's never a set amount of outputs/sub tasks).

For each of the subtasks we need a slightly different template or at the minimum a different default for the description field.

Ideally I'd have the ability to switch the issue type of the sub task, which would help set the default fields for that sub-task but that doesn't seem to exist.

Emma Hecht · Answer

@Brett Tomes

Hi! Here are the steps I took for my project to have different automated subtasks (basically, subtask templates):

* Created 2 different kinds of issue types, e.g. — Article and Essay. Each of these issue types needed different subtasks.
* Created an automation to add certain subtasks to the issue Article.
* Created a separate automation to add certain subtasks to the issue Essay.

To differentiate between Article and Essay in the automation, I added the Issue fields condition:

The full automation stream looks like this:

Not sure if this fully answers your question, but hopefully it's a step in the right direction!