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Subtasks any progress eta?
Hi I just wanted to add my voice to the other posts that were requesting sub tasks added to harvest. I know team members have mentioned it’s being worked on, but do you know when subtasks are expected as an additional feature?
Subtasks are critical not only to time tracking, but also for quotes and estimates. For example, if I’m developing a wordpress theme for a client, developing the theme would be the parent task. And sub tasks might be to install and configure a calendar plugin and a plugin that adds a user gallery.
If I get another job that requires me to create a word press theme and add a calendar plugin, I would go back into my records and look at the previous job to determine the actual hours needed. I would then subtract the sub task that isn’t required, in this case I’d subtract the user gallery hours from my estimate.
I hope that helps illustrate how subtasks are not only important to time tracking, but they are a vital component to future quotes.
No worries! We realize that subtasks would be helpful. We get a lot of feature requests on a daily basis, so we don’t comment on development timelines.
As a possible workaround, you could include the parent task name into the task name. For example, “Copywriting – Brainstorming”, “Copywriting – Draft”, “Copywriting – Editing”, etc.
I hope that helps!
