How to set Parent time estimate sum of Sub-tasks for Structure Gantt Chart

[Edgar Oregel]

I setup a Structure Gantt chart for a project to track the tickets and visually see a roadmap of how long a project is going to take to complete given the time estimate for tickets and ticket sub-tasks. I have setup the Structure configuration to use the "Time Tracking" field for scheduling. 

What i'm trying to accomplish is set the Parent ticket's remaining estimate to the Sum of all Sub-task's remaining estimate. Specifically, i would like to have the Parent ticket's remaining estimate update if i create a new Sub-task under that Parent ticket and reflect the effect it will have on the remaining estimate given the "Original Estimate" or "Remaining Estimate" provided in the Sub-task. 

Example:

• Parent ticket has 2 Sub-tasks with 2d of work each = 4d of work
• I create a new Sub-task with 1w of work. 
• EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: Parent ticket Remaining Estimate updates to 1w 3d and adjusts the size of the ticket block in the Structure Gantt chart to span over 1w and 3d.
• CURRENT BEHAVIOR: I create the new Sub-task with time in the Original and Remaining Estimate fields, but the Parent ticket's time doesn't adjust in the Structure Gantt chart to reflect to SUM of all Sub-task tickets. 

[Egor Tasa [ALM Works] · Accepted solution]

Hi Edgar,

I've answered this in our support system, but let me duplicate an answer here for others to see. At the moment it is impossible to add a remaining estimate to the parent based on its children's remaining estimates. Note that Gantt chart can aggregate the values to parent level if you use "Treat parent issues as groups", but this value stays in the chart only, not affecting Jira.

In Structure 6.0 that we are planning release soon, there willl be a functionality called Effectors, that will allow posting calculated attributes into Jira, this may help in your use case, but there will be some limitations (for instance Effectors will be manually activated rather than automatic), so I cannot say if it indeed helps.

Regards,
Egor

[Daniela Suarez]

Hi Guys, any solution for this issue? 

Thanks for your help. 

[Christina Khnaisser]

Hi,

Effectors is a very interesting functionality. My team accepted to upgrade to 6.0. However, we can not define a effoctor on the Original Estime neither on the Remaining Estimate :( 

Are you planning to add this in the near future ?

Thx.

Christina.

[Egor Tasa [ALM Works]]

Hi Christina,

Effectors cannot do that yet, but there will be several improvements to the functionality in the future. We are just trying to be careful and move forward slowly, setting up additional safeguards, as effectors are powerful enough to cause performance issues if configured incorrectly.

Regards,
Egor