Add a subtask to an existing story on the Kanban board

Last update: August 27, 2024

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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

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

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

or

Current: Work or higher

Object permissionsContribute or Manage access to the task the subtask is on

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

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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