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BethMa1
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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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EricLu2
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July 28, 2016
Hi: We never assign work to parent tasks. The reason is that when we do capacity planning, it is very confusing. I have a report that runs that shows me all tasks, with number of children > 0, where there is a role assigned or a person’s name assigned. I just edit the tasks from that report and delete all of them. When WOULD you want to assign resources at the parent level? If you aren’t doing capacity planning and want people to charge time to the parent task level - and not charge time to all of the detailed children tasks. That’s about the only reason I can think of for assigning people to parent tasks. Thanks! Eric
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