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We are using subtasks in the same way as Andy reported. With the feature to change any already reported issue to be a subissue we like using subtasks to group things.
Subtasks also give the opportunity to easily do a more detailled feature-planning than using linked items without loosing the overview. Hi Guys,
I like subtasks, but I tried a test with bulk changing them, and it lets me delete or edit multiple ones. Which version have you tried this on? Recent version seems to support this. regards, I think they mean a bulk change ability directly from the parent issue view.
I'm looking at this now too. We have some issues that have 20 or more subtasks. When you need to change just those sub tasks it can be a major hassle. The issue navigator has no easy way to "Find by Parent issue" to show only those 20 subtasks out of the hundreds. I've implemented a listener now that updates subtasks on parent modification. So if certain fields are changed on the parent it automatically updates sub-tasks to the same. (Fix Version, Components, etc.) What I'd like now is an "Edit" button in the sub-task list to save on the time to edit a sub-task. And a way to sort by Priority would be good ... I guess I'll be adding a lot now that I think about it. Hi Ken, im very interested in how you set up your listener.
Are you able to share anything? :o) I havent tried listeners yet, but one way which might help is to create a new custom field called "Parents Key", and to have this field visible on the subtasks issue type screen. Then you can set up a filter to show all items belonging to that parent key, and do a bulk change on them. There might be a way for that value to be initially auto-populated upon creation, based on which case was the parent, but Im not sure yet. regards, |
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Bulk change subtasks
We have now decided to back away from subtasks and to use linked issues instead. This is actually more natural, as often the subtasks have already been reported as standalone issues. Now that we are switching away from subtasks, I'm finding it painful that there is no easy way to bulk delete subtasks too! So now I have to manually delete the eight subtasks for each of the tasks that we set up this way.
More than ever I'm of the opinion that subtasks were a mistake and that instead the linking mechanism should be beefed up to support the same functionality. So I'd like to see 'bulk change linked issues' as an equivalent tool to whatever is done here.