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Whoops - strike the bit in brackets "(as well as issues without any children)".

This is what I meant:

I want to be able to select parent task as a filter and say "Parent Task is null" - so that I get all top-level issues.

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+1 This would be a hugely useful feature for things like the Gantt chart where we want an overview.

+1 Really would like to have this!

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We have added a patch to sum all the estimated issues on the page, all the issues returned by the query and also those in each group when grouped. Parent tasks are causing us to double (or triple) count some hours as they report the sum of all their child tasks (which may also be in the same list). Even with a filter on Parent Task (which I support) I still have a problem - could there be a 'Has Child Tasks' filter as well perhaps?

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My users don't like sub-tasking because they feel like it's making things more complicated and messy than before.
I think a "Is Parent" filter would really help them!
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+1 please.

+1 also a patch would be much appreciated.

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+1, such a filter would be really useful.

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+1 seems that there will be some progress regarding this issue, can you determine for which version number this is planed?

regards
Matthias

This feature was first requested via issue #5728. It was created by the UX-Team after UXTeamMeeting1 (see their meeting minutes, under "Core Challenges Observed with Subtask Feature:", number 2).
I've just closed #5728 as a "duplicated by" of this issue since most of the (relevant) discussion has taken place here (as suggested by Colan Schwartz).

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Mischa The Evil wrote:

This, along with #6116 / #5325, seems important things to improve handling of subtasks.

Agree! This could be handsome on greater projects with much subtasks.

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It seems to be the most important feature for my project !

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Thomas Lmx wrote:

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It seems to be the most important feature for my project !

same for us.

Reference also #9992-8

+1 I'm interested in this feature also.

+1 this feature will be very usefull for me too.

If anybody is interested, I also made a patch for display the parent subject and/or ID in email subject notification.
This information allow project manager to create template task with generic sub-tasks and copy it for recursives task.
Notifications by mail make more sense when subtask subject depends of parent subject.

Note : when task is just created, parent subject is unknown... so I display parent id instead of.

diff -r 64316d392708 -r 0f36159c4d63 app/models/mailer.rb
--- a/app/models/mailer.rb  Tue Jan 22 16:06:10 2013 +0100
+++ b/app/models/mailer.rb  Tue Jan 22 16:06:55 2013 +0100
@@ -43,9 +43,15 @@
     @issue_url = url_for(:controller => 'issues', :action => 'show', :id => issue)
     recipients = issue.recipients
     cc = issue.watcher_recipients - recipients
+   #s = "[#{issue.project.name} - #{issue.tracker.name} ##{issue.id}] (#{issue.status.name}) " 
+   s = "[#{issue.project.name} - " 
+   s << "#{issue.tracker.name} " if (issue.tracker.id != 4)
+   s << "##{issue.id}] (#{issue.status.name}) " 
+   s << "##{issue.parent_issue_id} > " if issue.parent_issue_id
+   s << "#{issue.subject}" 
     mail :to => recipients,
       :cc => cc, 
-      :subject => "[#{issue.project.name} - #{issue.tracker.name} ##{issue.id}] (#{issue.status.name}) #{issue.subject}" 
+      :subject => s
   end 

   # Builds a Mail::Message object used to email recipients of the edited issue.
@@ -65,8 +71,11 @@
     recipients = issue.recipients
     # Watchers in cc
     cc = issue.watcher_recipients - recipients
-    s = "[#{issue.project.name} - #{issue.tracker.name} ##{issue.id}] " 
+    s = "[#{issue.project.name} - " 
+   s << "#{issue.tracker.name} " if (issue.tracker.id != 4)
+   s << "##{issue.id}] " 
     s << "(#{issue.status.name}) " if journal.new_value_for('status_id')
+   s << "#{issue.parent.subject} - " if issue.parent
     s << issue.subject
     @issue = issue
     @journal = journal

You can also patch your project to display parent subject instead of tracker and ID in issues list :

diff -r 70ce4d70b7e1 -r 61345a556b62 app/helpers/application_helper.rb
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb Tue Jan 22 16:12:26 2013 +0100
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb Tue Jan 22 20:10:39 2013 +0100
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@
   #   link_to_issue(issue, :truncate => 6)        # => Defect #6: This i...
   #   link_to_issue(issue, :subject => false)     # => Defect #6
   #   link_to_issue(issue, :project => true)      # => Foo - Defect #6
+  #   link_to_issue(issue, :title => subject)     # => This is the subject: Defect #6
+  #                                              # if 'id' or nil => default behavior
   #
   def link_to_issue(issue, options={})
     title = nil 
     subject = nil 
+   if options[:title] == nil || options[:title] == 'id'
     if options[:subject] == false
       title = truncate(issue.subject, :length => 60) 
     else
@@ -82,6 +85,18 @@
     s << h(": #{subject}") if subject
     s = h("#{issue.project} - ") + s if options[:project]
     s   
+   elsif options[:title] == 'subject'
+       subject = issue.subject
+       if options[:truncate]
+         subject = truncate(subject, :length => options[:truncate])
+       end
+       tracker = "#{h(issue.tracker)} ##{issue.id}" 
+       s = link_to subject, {:controller => "issues", :action => "show", :id => issue},
+                                                    :class => issue.css_classes,
+                                                    :title => tracker
+       s = h("#{issue.project} - ") + s if options[:project]
+       s
+   end
   end 

   # Generates a link to an attachment.
diff -r 70ce4d70b7e1 -r 61345a556b62 app/helpers/queries_helper.rb
--- a/app/helpers/queries_helper.rb Tue Jan 22 16:12:26 2013 +0100
+++ b/app/helpers/queries_helper.rb Tue Jan 22 20:10:39 2013 +0100
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     when 'FalseClass'
       l(:general_text_No)
     when 'Issue'
-      link_to_issue(value, :subject => false)
+      link_to_issue(value, {:subject => false, :title => 'subject'})
     else
       h(value)
     end

+1 we need this feature

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+1 (display should include indirect subtasks in order to see the full branches related to a top parent task)

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Patch in #10828 should resolve this issue.

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It's been 4 years and innumerable similar requests, this feature is as basic as it gets, what's the hold up?

Luis Ferrao wrote:

It's been 4 years and innumerable similar requests, this feature is as basic as it gets, what's the hold up?

subscribe to the issue

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Any planned roadmap that could include this feature?
Would really improve my (and others) workflow.

Thanks.

Our company uses many issues with many parent tasks. This feature would greatly improve our work with redmine, as we could filter all "master" issues. This would be really great to see this in the next release.

This is great feature but should be done as more complete and include filter by parent task, root task and is leaf. Those are all parent-child relations.

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I am patching production with Felix's patch, I would love it included in next release.
Useful for views of root tasks or child tasks of given task.

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Thank you very much for implementing this!

That is great, no more plugins!

The only option that seems to be missing under "subtasks" is ability to show issue hierarchy deep to some level. This is useful to see overall list of job to do for a project to some level of details. (#20129)

Sebastian Paluch wrote:

The only option that seems to be missing under "subtasks" is ability to show issue hierarchy deep to some level. This is useful to see overall list of job to do for a project to some level of details.

Open another ticket for that (unless there is one already), and link to it from here. Let's not cloud this fixed issue.

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

I've added 2 filters in r14304 to filter on parent and subtasks (these 2 filters can be combined):

Excellent!! Thanks Jean-Philippe!!

This seems to be the solution for some user-requests in our company.

Could you explain - for the rest of us - HOW I could create a filter which shows a specific tasks an all his related subtasks in a hierarchy?
I just can't figure it ou.

Thanks, Régis