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Moving subtask to in-progress doesn't transition parent task to in-progress

Nick Brook_2oxsa8

I'm pretty sure this Just Worked in my last company, again using a standard JIRA Cloud setup with no modifications or plugins. However I can't figure out a way to get this to work short of installing an external (paid) plugin, which seems crazy.

Simply put: when I drag a sub-task to "In progress", the parent task should be marked as "In progress".

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Alexey Matveev

Hello,

It can not be done out of the box.

Vishnukumar Vasudevan

You can not achieve this without customizing your workflow. Also, you would need custom plugin to add such post-fuctions to your workflow.

Nick Brook_2oxsa8

But that's just mad isn't it? What is the point of subtasks then?

If I drag across a subtask from "todo" to "in progress" why would i *not* want to transition the parent task to "in progress"?

Are you saying that the only way to do this now is to actually *pay* for a third party plugin? I'm fairly sure that I didn't do that in my previous setup

Nick Brook_2oxsa8

Ah, but I've just confirmed that this didn't work in the old setup either :-(

Ok, looks like I need the plugin then. How annoying

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Why not?

Because your process might be using sub-tasks to represent dependencies or other process complexities (I can't do anything with the parent until the sub-tasks are complete).

Also, you (or someone else) are working on the sub-task and not the parent at all. The sub-task may well be part of it, but as you've delegated all of the task into a sub-task, you can't say the parent is in-progress when you're actually progressing the sub-task.

Most of us run into processes where a sub-task's status is entirely independent of the main task, and a parent can be unstarted even when its sub-tasks are in progress or even complete.

Nick Brook_2oxsa8

But if your subtask has been started then surely your parent task has been started? If there is no linkage at all then why make it a subtask? Logically, if a part of a solution is in progress that the whole solution is in progress.

Jack Brickey

you might try using Automation Lite for Jira. I haven't tried it for this but worth a shot.

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