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Add a subtask to an existing story on the Kanban board

Last update: Tue Dec 13 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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When creating subtasks for existing stories, keep in mind the following:

When the Summary Completion Mode setting for the project is set to Manual:

  • You can move a parent story with subtasks to Complete, which updates the parent story to 100% and the Status to Complete. Subtasks are not updated.
  • To update the Percent Complete for the story, you must update it from the Stories tab or from the Details page of the object.

When the Summary Completion Mode setting for the project is set to Automatic:

  • You can’t move the parent story across the board. To update the Percent Complete for the story, you must update the Percent Complete for any subtasks. The Percent Complete for the story is calculated based on the Percent Complete of all subtasks.
  • Moving a parent story with subtasks to Complete updates the parent story to 100% and the Status to Complete. Subtasks are also updated to 100% and the Status is updated to Complete.

Access requirements

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront plan*
Any
Adobe Workfront license*
Work or higher
Access level configurations*

Worker or higher

Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

Contribute or Manage access to the task the subtask is on

For information on requesting additional access, see Request access to objects.

*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.

Add a subtask to an existing story on the Kanban board

  1. Go to the Kanban board that contains the story where you want to add a subtask.
  2. Click the name of the task on the story tile on the Kanban board.
  3. Add a subtask to the task as you would in any other task list within Workfront, as described in Create subtasks.
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