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Allow parent task to be completed automatically upon completion of all subtasks
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Will Pace
I would like for the status of parent tasks to be automatically closed upon completion of all subtasks.
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Caroline Ginty
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Hi everyone - I'm marking this request as complete as it's possible to set this up in one or more locations using Automations. Thanks!

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Kevin Smothers
It would also be nice if an option to this feature was to automatically have a parent task's status be updated with the lowest status of its child tasks.
Premise:
Say your workflow has 9 statuses
Scenario
You have a parent task with 4 child tasks. (like a story with 4 working sub-tasks)
If...
Child Task 1 is status 8
Child Task 2 is status 4
Child Task 3 is status 9
Child Task 4 is status 7
Then...
Parent Task would be set to status 4 automatically and follow the lowest status ticket across the workflow.
This strategy would eliminate the chance of anyone misinterpreting the lowest point of progress for the story, as a whole in this scenario, while also ensuring that it is obvious that the story, as a whole, IS making progress across the workflow.
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dolev hayut
Hi caroline - but it will take automations usage isnt?
Caroline Ginty
dolev hayut: Yes, that's right with how this works today. Definitely something we can explore to better productize this outside of Automations though!
Caroline Ginty
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Hi everyone - I'm marking this request as complete as it's possible to set this up in one or more locations using Automations. Thanks!

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Jenny Brown
I agree with this being optional only. There are times when you want to add more subtasks and don't want the parent task to be automatically completed.
Martin-Pierre Beaulieu
Jenny Brown: I've got this setup that it only happens if the parent task has a specific tag on it. So I can enable it on a per task base.
TaeLynn Johnson
We’ve been able to achieve this with automations
Courtney Johnston
TaeLynn Johnson: us too
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Jeffrey Ashman
This would overcome our primary challenge using subtasks.
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Jennifer Lester Mulridge
As long as this was optional, I agree. In some cases, you might want a second thought before concluding your sub task list was comprehensive enough to represent the whole of the task.
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WT
As mentioned, it would be ideal to turn this on or off by space, but overall, a natural process for many to close the parent automatically. +1
Emma Fitch
If this were to be a new feature, it would be great if it was a setting that could be turned on and off as in our spaces, this wouldn’t work. Our tasks move along a chain of status’ and it’s only the subtasks that are marked as either complete or incomplete. While the main (parent) task will display as a status based on where it is along that chain, that may be pending, available, sold or withdrawn.
Jamie Austin
This is something I have been trying to do but cant find a good workaround. Definitely on my wish list!
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