How to get sub-tasks to inherit Parent task start/end dates

[Gabrielle Hitchcock]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to automation and my team is having some issues with the tedious nature of having to modify sub-tasks individually before adjusting the Parent task. I've seen a bunch of questions in how to make the Parent tasks dependent on it's subtasks start/due date but our team isn't probably going to leverage sub-tasks on a granular level.

That being said, if I have a parent task that lasts 5 days (with the due dates 11/13-11/17), what do I have to adjust/automate/etc. to get the subtasks to just match the start and due date of the parents tasks (i.e. 11/13-11/17)? 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Anne,

I just tested this in our server environment with the same result. If you have the permission to change the author, you can change it to someone who otherwise has no permission at all on the project. 

I looked through the issues on jira.atlassian.com but could not find an issue for that. Maybe you want to raise it there for gathering interest.

You can always see in the issue history, who changed the author and who originally created the issue. But I agree, this can lead to some strange behaviours.