Filter subtasks based on the status of their parent task
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Toni
Let’s say I have 2 tasks. The first task has a status Active and the second task has a status Inactive. Both tasks have various subtasks.
I would like to go to Everything, turn on “Show subtasks as separate items” and tell the filter to: show me only subtasks that have a parent task with Active status. Of course, the Status should not be the only criterion, I may need Priority, Due date, etc.
This will give me the ability to use tasks more like actual sub-projects.
I’m not sure if this has already been requested here: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/filter-tasks-by-parent-task, as I could not really understand that request. Fell free to merge this suggestion if this is the case.
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Andrew Tomassetti
This would be valuable in dashboards as well so when it comes to visualizing data, you can ensure its relevant. Being able to see subtasks that only have a parent with custom field "x" is something I run into constantly and struggle to find workarounds for that don't take an enormous effort to implement.
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Dieter Maes
The newly introduced task types will allow for more flexible structuring of tasks, with parent tasks having a different task type than its subtasks. This offers a lot of advantages but makes it harder to filter subtasks. Being able to filter tasks based on properties from the parent task will become more important.
Note that I would not limit the filtering to only the status of the parent task, but to all properties of the parent task.
Example case:
Task type ‘project’ contains subtasks of task type ‘task’.
Each project has a status (duh) and custom fields (eg. ‘Product: My Product’).
I want to get a view that lists all tasks that:
• Parent task has custom field Product: My Product
• Parent task has status ‘In Progress’
• Task has assignee ‘Me’
Waleed Elaghil
Merged in a post:
Filter tasks by parent task
Александр Волков
It would be nice to be able to filter all subtasks by parental task.
This option may present in "filter" dialog and in right-mouse-click dialog.
Current presentation of subtasks in the "task form" or in the drop down menu in the "list view" has no any additional information that my employees wants.
So we need to be able to make our work in the list view (with any complex settings) in the context of the parental task.
mike@lensandhat.com
Subtask filters in context of their parent task and vice-versa would be great. Another use case is my weekly review. I filter for tasks that don't have an actionable date. Some of my tasks have subtasks with dates but the parent task doesn't. Being able to exclude these tasks from the filter would reduce noise because [in my workflow] if a task has a date to complete something (ie a subtask) the task isn't orphaned without a date commitment.
Jake DeGroot
Agreed. We have many sub-tasks that a team is working on. Just viewing those sub-tasks in the parent task itself is too limiting. Instead, we want to create a view of those subtasks with complex grouping, sorting, filtering. So a real list view, but with only the subtasks of a specific parent. Right now, the only workaround we've found is to tag all the sub-tasks and make a list view filtered to that tag.
Александр Волков
