Can you configure Parent Tasks to show Cancelled if all of the sub tasks have been Cancelled.

[DanaLa3]

When a parent task has children that are cancelled the system shows the status of the Parent task as Complete. I can't find a way to change this. We are trying to build a way to show that a Parent task (which represents a job) was cancelled. We need a way to report on parent tasks that were cancelled and parent tasks that were actually completed because the work is done. Is there a way to set up workfront so that if all children tasks are cancelled the parent task would also show cancelled? 

[skyehansen]

I don't think there's a way to do that. You could try a report to only include parent tasks that have cancelled children, but this would only work if you had no grandchildren (otherwise, you would have to account for all descendants in some way).

[Sven-iX · Accepted solution]

Hi @DanaLa3 
You could delete the child tasks and then you can set the parent to Cancelled. Would that work? 

[DanaLa3]

Thanks so much. That would certainly work for any child tasks that were not completed. I would then just have to figure out how to handle some child tasks that were truly worked on verses any others that were no longer needed. I think its going to be a combination of deleting child tasks not worked on and then creatively building reports to excluded canceled child tasks. Thanks everyone for the feedback. 

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hi @DanaLa3,

I think I wrangle my new Echo technique to detect and highlight Parent Tasks whose Children (and Grandchildren, and Great Grandchildren, etc.) are all Not Applicable so that you could then (manually) also mark such Parent Tasks as Not Applicable, with confidence.

If that sounds appealing, I'd be happy to take a run at it sometime.

Regards,

Doug

[kautuk_sahni]

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