Limit sub-task due date not to pass parent issue due date

[Jacques]

hi all,

is there any way to force JIRA not to accept sub-task due dates that go beyond the parent's issue due date?

Eg:

• parent issue due date is set to Feb 15, 2012
• sub task due date should not be allowed to be set beyond this date. Any date before Feb 15 should be accepted.

From my reasoning this should be a condition during the issue creation process...

Any suggestions?

thanks,
Jacques.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You'll need to find or write a "validator" to do this (a "condition" will stop a transition from being offered to a user - that's a bit too early in the lifecycle)

[Jacques]

thanks Nic,

where would I look for such a validator? I (still have no) experience with programming in/for JIRA.

thx,
Jacques.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

https://plugins.atlassian.com/ is the place to start.

[Jacques]

Thanks Nic! On my way there now!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It absolutley depends on your process.

But I'd say that in the majority of cases, no - you would not want a parent issue to have it's due date amended by a sub-task - if that happens, your main task would have been changed, probably without any oversight by a human. Jacques approach feels more correct - if a human needs to push a sub-task out past the main task's due-date, then it's very likely that a batch of humans need to know, and discuss the problem. As someone who has to deliver stuff to deadlines, I absolutely would NOT want my deadlines being changed just because we're breaking up work into bits.

[Renjith Pillai]

Was wondering, it should be rather the other way, the parent task due date should get shifted as per the latest due date from the sub-tasks. Isn't it?