Help | Parent Task Planned Duration Report

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May 5, 2025
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Hello,

I've built a report that captures a project's Parent tasks' planned duration. While the report does capture the Parent task's name and planned duration, I want a summation of all the subtasks' planned duration; instead, I get a duplicate line item named with the parent task.

Filters:

The Report:

The Project:

So technically, I would want my report to look like this:

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best answer by _Manish_Singh

Could you group the report the report by project name and see what you are getting? or apply the project filter for testing? I think the summary tasks in your screenshots are from different projects.

For example, these are the tasks from my dummy project:

This is the report output with number of children greater than zero and grouped/filtered by project name:

_Manish_Singh

Level 9

Hi @isaacwu, You can add this filter to get parent tasks only.

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IsaacWuAuthor

Level 2

Thank you for your response, Manish!

I've added that filter and I think it's a step in the right direction; however, now it is only tracking "Summary" which is the top-level parent task, technically. It is also duplicating it in the report:

_Manish_SinghAccepted solution

Level 9

Could you group the report the report by project name and see what you are getting? or apply the project filter for testing? I think the summary tasks in your screenshots are from different projects.

For example, these are the tasks from my dummy project:

This is the report output with number of children greater than zero and grouped/filtered by project name:

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