Summing of a numerical custom field

[Heinrich Graupner]

Hi 

I want to know if it possible to sum a numerical custom field over a project will all its sub-tasks?

For example reference, say I have a numerical custom field that is called "Order Value"
This Custom Field then needs to sum all the values in a project "XYZ". 

I want to show this value in another project "Sales Purchased".

[Ryan Fish · Accepted solution]

@Debbie.dananberg

A very subjective question :) 

1. How does the team want to handle incoming work?
2. What is the a business or technical reason for one option or the other?
3. What is the advantage of adding the layer of "project"? How will that extra layer be used in the future? How will it be used now (immediate future)?

It would seem by the provided information, your first option seems the most straight forward with one team/ one board, multiple projects (epics). The hierarchy could be something like board/ epics/ stories.

I currently use something similar to option 2, but with multiple boards where each team owns a board and their is a program level board holding all epics and features. Stories dwell on the team boards. The issuetype hierarchy is epic/ feature/ story/ sub-task. 

The result is I can have multiple teams working on an epic, each team views their issues on their own board. Teams can drill up to see a feature and its related work (on all team boards). I can drill down from the program level to see individual team stories and progress.

Hope this helps

Ryan

[Debbie.dananberg]

Thank you so much. This was exactly my thoughts as well - that this is very subjective. I don't see any reason at this point to change at this point but we can always revisit this.