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July 27, 2016
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Assigning parent tasks?

  • July 27, 2016
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Our process has been to assign only working tasks (tasks/subtasks with no children) and leave parent tasks unassigned. I noticed some screenshots in Workfront documentation show assignments on parent tasks. Does anyone assign parent tasks? What is the purpose and how do you use it? I can imagine it could possibly help with pared-down dashboards or reports to get a high level view of who is responsible... Beth Massura Assistant Director of Operations, Marketing The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60637 Phone: 773.702.7598
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November 16, 2022

Like others have said, it's not best practice to assign Parent tasks to anyone and it really makes a mess of reporting financials.

What we did was create a dummy user "Do Not Assign" that we assign to parent tasks on templates to drive this point home.