Hey Plannr-ites,

We’ve rolled out a fix to the taskboard which will hopefully make your task management a little easier 🤩 Read on for more info, but the TLDR is that you can now see all your subtasks on your kanban board alongside the parent tasks!

A little key 🔑

Parent tasks are the main and first task you create

Subtasks are any tasks you have added underneath that parent task, that is related to the parent, and must be completed before the parent task can also be completed

Okay, let’s go:

The problem: With the current layout on your task boards it is difficult to see at a glance all tasks assigned to someone on the kanban board. If a task is a subtask of a subtask it won’t show within the subtasks container 📦

We originally did this for two reasons:

• The board would begin to get very cluttered and room for all of this information is extremely limited.
• To reduce complexity given how many branches of subtasks a task could have, and keep that confined to the larger task details page. 

However being able to see all assigned tasks should take priority so to fix this we now show all tasks, regardless of whether or not they are subtasks, to the kanban board (just like the list view) and we are removing the subtask container 📦 on each task card in favour of the following:

• An icon in the top left to denote that a task is a subtask with a tooltip of the parent task name (see below).
• The subtask icon and subtask total in the bottom right will still be there to indicate how many direct subtasks a task has, with a tooltip showing the names of the subtasks, but will no longer open a subtask container.

You will still be able to move tasks across statuses to change, complete or archive them. 

To add or remove a subtask, click on a task and use the Subtask container here to manage subtasks. You can add a parent task in the same page if the task in question doesn’t already have a parent task.

Important: Please make sure to reset the task filter to see these changes or do so in Settings > My Account > Reset Filters

And that’s it! Total task visibility from the kanban board, hooray! If you need any help or further guidance we have our support articles on task management here 🤓