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Steer an epic's subtasks

An epic runs its subtasks for you, but you can still step in. Each subtask is a task of its own, with its own page and its own ⋯ menu, so most of what you do with a task you can do with a subtask.

Who can do this: starting, stopping and resetting subtasks need edit access to the epic's project.

Start a subtask now​

Subtasks normally wait for the ones before them. To run one straight away:

  1. Open the epic and select the Subtasks tab.
  2. Find the subtask. One that hasn't started yet has a Start button on its row.
  3. Hover Start. Its tip says it dispatches the subtask now, ignoring the subtasks it would otherwise wait for.
  4. Select Start.
  5. Watch its state change to Queued, then Running.

Start a subtask early only when you know it doesn't need the work of the ones before it.

Stop or redo a subtask​

  1. Open the epic and select the Subtasks tab.
  2. Select the subtask's title to open its page.
  3. Open its ⋯ menu.
  4. Select Stop to pause it, or Reset to put it back to a clean draft.
  5. To change what it does, select its Task tab, edit the description, and select Go.

What each of these does is in Stop, restart or reset a task. An epic itself has no Reset: to start part of its work over, reset that part's subtasks.

Park the epic while you wait on a customer​

Waiting on customer… is set on the epic, not on its subtasks.

  1. Open the epic.
  2. Open its ⋯ menu.
  3. Select Waiting on customer….
  4. Optional: type a Note saying what you're waiting for.
  5. Select Stop and wait.