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Can milestones have subpackages assigned?

Added by Ricardo Garcia Silva almost 9 years ago

I’m trying to create a subpackage from a parent milestone. This does not seem to work, as openproject fails with ‘Parent cannot be a milestone’. Is this a ‘feature’? Or did I configure something the wrong way?

If it is indeed not possible to create a subtask from a milestone, how can I use milestones together with the backlogs plugin?


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RE: Can milestones have subpackages assigned? - Added by Robin Wagner almost 9 years ago

Hi Ricardo,

thanks for your question.
It’s indeed not possible to assign children to milestones. The concept behind milestones is that they do not have sub-tasks assigned to them but are separate from other work packages and mark a single point in time (therefore, the start and end date of a milestone have to be the same).
If you want to use work package types with sub-tasks, you should make sure that those types are not defined as “milestones” (configured in the “Types” section in the administration).
A different way to show dependencies with milestones (instead of using work package children) can be reached by using work package relations: You can configure that a milestone “follows” another work package.

Best,
Robin

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