User story done incorrectly

[Jira Median]

Hi,

We have a strange behavior.

A user story with 3 subtasks. 2 subtasks are in done status and 1 is in progress.
The problem is that the user story is in done while there is 1 subtask "in progress".

How change this ?

thanks

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can use the "subtask blocking" workflow condition to prevent this from happenning.

Check out https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/preventing-issues-from-being-closed-while-their-sub-task-are-still-open-724928276.html

[Jira Median]

thanks. 

Is it the best practice or is it best to stay with default behavior ?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I would say it is a best practice as it doesn't make sense to close a story when it still has subtasks in progress!

[Alexey Matveev]

What do you mean by strange behaviour? User stories and subtasks by default do not have any relations in statuses. The story can be closed but sub tasks can be still open. If you want statuses of a story and its subtasks to be connected then you would need to add conditions or post functions. It depends on what you want and what plugins you have on your Jira instance.

[Jira Median]

I understand.

But The workflow behavior I want  is : when I drag n drop 1 of my 3 substaks to "in progress" the story status (was in done) go to "in progress".

Did The conditions and post functions method permits this ?