Defect #6359
Move subtasks between issues and set existing issue as a subtask
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 2010-09-10 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Affected version: | Resolution: | Invalid |
Description
With the subtasking feature it doesnt appear that a user can move a subtask to another task, nor use an existing issue as a subtask.
We had somewhat implemented our own way of doing subtasks before 1.0, and wanted to move some of these, but appears that we cant.
Another (which is a larger issue for us) is that if a user accidentally creates an issue they want to be a subissue as a 'normal' issue - they have to delete it and recreate it.
History
#1 Updated by Gerry Hawkins over 1 year ago
I agree that it is important for an defect to be able to become a subtask after creation. Having to delete and recreate the defect report just to parent it under a feature just is not a good work flow.
Possible workflows: subtask add allows for adding a defect #, e.g. add existing versus add new; a defect has a parent under this feature option; there is a nice drag and drop interface for auto-magically parenting.
#2 Updated by Enderson Maia over 1 year ago
Jon Lumpkin wrote:
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Another (which is a larger issue for us) is that if a user accidentally creates an issue they want to be a subissue as a 'normal' issue - they have to delete it and recreate it.
There's no need to delete and/or recreate.
You can access the issue, click "Update" than access the link "More" and fill the "Parent task" field.
If this solve your problem, please update this issue as "Resolved"
#3 Updated by Eric Davis over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Resolution set to Invalid
You can update an issue and set it's Parent field like Enderson Maia described. This can be used to "convert" a normal issue into a subissue, move an issue from one parent to another, or convert a subissue to a normal issue.
I'm hoping to update the user interface for 1.1 to make this easier to understand.
#4 Updated by Jon Lumpkin over 1 year ago
I hope so too. This works as we wanted, but would have never been able to find this otherwise. This is a great feature, but very hard to find!
#5 Updated by Gerry Hawkins over 1 year ago
That worked. And since it is not, hopefully, that common a workflow I am OK with the way to do it being also not that common. That being said I didn't find this either.
And as I said in #6405 having parenting activity reported in the activity report would be helpful