Create rule/condition to disable "Done" status for Epic untill all Child work items are "Done"

emilyhueg

Hi, I have a team-managed project where I recently added a rule/condition to the transition from Any ⇾ "Done", such that all subtasks must be completed before a parent task can be set to "Done".

 

This works perfectly fine for Tasks, but what about Epics?

 

Epics don't have Subtasks, but have Child work items

 

How do I add a rule/condition such that all child work items must be completed before an Epic can be set to "Done"? 

Alexander Hohmann

I had the same question once and created a rule with an overnight 'planned' trigger that would scan all Epics and set those to 'Done' whose child work items were all completed. That has the advantage of nobody having to actually think of closing the Epic. That way you have automatic consistency, albeit the day after.

I guess you could also create a rule triggered by any child work item being set to completed, that will then start a branch for the related Epic and have that branch scan through all other child work items and set the Epic to 'Done' if all of the latter are completed.