Deactivate and activate tasks

[Sara V.]

Hello everyone! 
In my project I need to temporarily "deactivate" some activities that I may have to reactivate in the future. 

"Deactivating a task" means that the original estimate, strong dependencies and duration of that task are temporarily "switched off" so that my team's capacity does not calculate it, as well as the entire plan data is recalculated and dependencies are "hidden", thus not considered.

I know that I can somehow clean up the original estimate field. Is there also a way to 'retrieve' the value when I need it?

I was also wondering whether it is possible to change strong dependencies to soft dependencies in bulk and vice versa (so that the dates in the rest of the plan in both cases are recalculated).

@lucale 

Thank you very much in advance!

[Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Accepted solution]

I don't think that it is possible out of the box.

Maybe you could just introduce a special status "Deactivated" and then in the input for all your reports and list and everything, filter out the issues in this status.

Basically, in all the related JQL you'd append a last criterion

and status != "Deactivated"

I don't know if your all your reports and mechanisms can be fed with a JQL, but if they can, then it could work.

[Sara V.]

Thank you @Aron Gombas _Midori_! 
I've arleady thought about that mechanism, and it would work for the original estimate (I could clean up the field through the Jira automation so that the capacity of the team would remain full and would not consider that particular task). 

However, if there's no way to switch the strong dependencies to the soft ones, the Gantt module could not be updated, and the datas would not be re-calculated according to the temporarily new plan.