Option to turn a checklist item into a task or subtask (and vice-versa)
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Ivan Villa
Updated Dec 2025
Hello everyone! Just wanted to touch base with an update and gather some thoughts.
A few months back, we rolled out the feature allowing you to create tasks and subtasks from your checklist items. We'd love to hear about your experiences with this functionality and any thoughts you might have on how it's working for you so far.
We're now exploring the next part: enabling conversion from tasks/subtasks back into checklist items. We're curious about your preferences on handling the original items during conversion - would you prefer automatic deletion of the originals, or would you rather have deletion presented as an option during the conversion process?
Looking forward to your feedback!
Raina Ahuja
Merged in a post:
convert subtasks to checklist
Luděk
ability to convert task with subtask into checklist
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Erra Faye Zabat
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Hey, everyone! We’re excited to share that we’ve created new statuses in Canny to provide more transparency and clarity around the progress of feature requests. We've updated the status of this request to reflect the updated status. The Product Manager will provide updates on this post when they have new details to share!
Alicia Michelle
PLEASE 🙏
JT
100%. Lets get this done!
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Levi Bly
Can turn a checklist item into a subtask or subtask into a task, but the only way I've found so far to convert subtasks into a checklist is select all subtasks, Copy on the bulk actions toolbar, choose task name only, paste into a checklist and it'll give me the option to separate as checklist items detected.
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Melissa Diemand
Just tested this out. It works well except it's odd it makes you re-name the Task. It would be ideal to turn the existing checklist text into the Task name as a default and then allow someone to edit to the Task name if need be.
Dustin Taylor
Automatic deletion
Roman
In most cases I'd appreciate automated deletion of a subtask, but in cases, where it has comments and activity, it might be useful to keep it, but close it, and keep it linked, so we don't lose the discussion.
Jeff Kemp
options are good
Smokie Lee
The best UX is always providing the user with an option, automatic deletion is too risky for complex projects with lots of hands in it.
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