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Key: JRA-14015
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Vincent Eggen
Votes: 0
Watchers: 2
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Add a "AutoAdjust Issue and Parent" option in the Worklog screen for subtasks

Created: 22/Nov/07 05:49 AM   Updated: 25/Nov/07 05:18 PM
Component/s: Time Tracking, UI / Usability
Affects Version/s: 3.11
Fix Version/s: None

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Participants: Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] and Vincent Eggen
Since last comment: 45 weeks, 1 day ago
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Since the 3.11, Time-tracking data can includes the issue's sub-tasks. This is a great long time expected feature. And I think we can make it even better.

Let's consider the following (I guess realistic in the way people uses Jira) scenario:

Most of the initial high level estimates are made on the Parent issue.
Then as the issue understanding increases, estimated subtasks are created.

In order to keep the total estimated effort coherent between the Parent and its Children, the owner of a subtask must update the Parent according to the time tracking information passed in the children. For instance, if I initially estimate a Parent issue to 5 days of effort, if I then split it in 5 subtasks of 1 day, I can decide to reduce the remaining of the Parent issue in similar proportion (otherwise I'll get 10 days in the consolidated view).

This should be an option - maybe I'll be pleased to keep a effort margin at the parent level "in case of".

Currently, this little process, while understood by our users, is quite cumbersome: update subtasks timetracking, than udpate parent timetracking.
It has a direct impact of the reliability of the information gathered at parent level.

We would like a shortcut in the subtask worklog screen that would allow the users to update the parent timetracking according to the children changes.
Sounds like a small change, but we do think it would increase the reliability of the time tracking data.



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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] added a comment - 22/Nov/07 09:31 PM
Hi Vincent,

I see what you mean. The change would also need to be made on the screens that allow one to set the Original or Remaining Estimate for the sub-task issue, not just on the sub-task's Log Work screen. What do you think?

Cheers,
Anton


Vincent Eggen added a comment - 23/Nov/07 01:33 AM
I think you're right.

Any chance to get it done soon ?

Vince


Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] added a comment - 25/Nov/07 05:18 PM
Hi Vincent,

While we would love to improve JIRA in all possible ways, we have a lot of (thousands) of feature and improvement requests, and choosing which ones we are going to do next is the most challenging part of our jobs. Also, allowing to adjust the parent's time tracking information wny time the sub-tasks information changes is not too straight forward. For more information on the way new feature and improvement requests are scheduled please have a look at:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+and+Improvements

Therefore, I do not think we will be able to get to this one very soon.

To help with your use case, would it be possible to create all needed sub-tasks after planning the issue, and then adjust the time tracking information on the parent issue once?

Cheers,
Anton