When planning projects requiring multiple steps, we create an overall parent task and then build the subtasks from there. The time required for each subtask is entered and displays as a rolled up time required on the day within the parent task.

However, when reviewing the Workload view, this time rollout up is no included within the overall day's time allocation which causes over-scheduling and project delays. If I change the time allocation on to the main parent task, but then subtasks have to be rescheduled, this causes inefficiencies by manually calculating the adjusted overall time required.

Can the workload view please be changed to include the total parent task time taken from subtasks.

This is one of my biggest gripes with the workload view. Ive talked to a rep before and their response was that "yes, we designed it so you assign the actual task to each day to get an accurate time" or something similar. It has made my usage of workload views almost obsolete because i cant just assign a parent task a date. I have to then rememeber to assign every child task, and when viewing the workload, its a mess.

In the workload view, the time estimate should roll up as in the list view.. Otherwise it would missed presentation of the workload for the team.

I'm also having this issue! Why are my main tasks showing 0hrs even though when I click on it, it shows the total estimated time rolled up from the subtasks? This pretty well makes workload view unusable.

I opened another feature request as this seems to be ingnored.

My post went like this...

There is a setting in workload view called 'include rollups' which is always on, but what does it do?

If a subtask is unscheduled (no dates assigned), its estimated time (rollup) will not show in its scheduled parent.

Unnecessary scheduling of multiple subtasks that require some estimated time is a laborious task and also creates massively cluttered workload and timeline views. Surely if you have a scheduled parent task that has unscheduled subtasks with time estimates, it should show that roll up in the workload view? If not, please explain why not?

This may work effectively in tasks that have no parent (I haven't checked, as that doesn't suit our set up), but subtasks of subtasks really suffer here.

Maybe a simple setting like 'Show unscheduled rollups' or just 'include rollups' that actually works???

Am I missing an obvious reason as to why it works like it does?

Yes! Would love to see this feature. Doesn't make sense that rolled-up time estimates don't count toward workload.

We have multiple sub-tasks under a main task. Not including the time estimate of the main task in the workload view while using the roll up version seems extremely inefficient. Seems like gross oversight on the developer team's part.

I could be losing it, but I think this is a feature now? A colleague of mine told me she's been using workload with subtasks rolling out for a few weeks. I tested it, and it appears to be a feature now. Was there an update I missed and this is now a feature?

Brent Evans I can't choose that anymore in workload view, right?

And I have to give the subtasks dates. what does not make sense...

Brendan W why having the rollup feature without this functionallity. Thats a must for businesses who really use time based workload management & subtasks!!!