How do I mark a child issue as done?

Geoff Whiting

This might seem like a simple thing, but I can't find the options that Jira's help lists.

I'm trying to make some child issues assigned to me as done, but I don't see how.

So, I've got a task like this:

I've completed the editing and CMS upload and want to make those complete. But when I click through on the task, what I see is:

I have no idea what feature to use to mark things as complete. When I click that blue "Editing" button there is a "Complete" option but that doesn't actually mark things off on the child issues list.

Only thing I can think of is that the "Reporter" is another team member, so maybe they have the option to mark as done, and I don't?

Feels like I'm missing something obvious, so please let me know what it is.
Thank you very much for any help!

Mark Segall

Hi @Geoff Whiting and welcome to the community!

By design, child issues are treated as actions that are completed individually in support of a parent issue.  So they do not automatically complete when the parent is completed. 

If your working process is that you simply use them as a non-actionable checklist, you could potentially leverage an automation rule to resolve all child issues upon resolution of your parent issue.