Parent and sub-issues
Break a larger Issue into smaller pieces of work in the same Team.
Capture inspection photos
Capture the site inspection photos and attach them to the field report.
Activity
Overview
Use sub-issues when one task needs smaller steps or several owners. Each child remains an Issue with its own status and assignee. In Integrity, a parent and its children must stay in the same Team.
Create a sub-issue
- Open the parent Issue.
- Use Sub-issues to add a child.
- Enter the title, review its properties, and create it.
While creating an Issue, choose … → Set parent… to select an existing parent in the same Team. You can also draft children from … → Add sub-issue… while creating a parent. Both actions appear at the top of the menu, above Add relation for dependencies and related work. Finish or cancel the open child editor before submitting the parent. If a child fails afterward, use Retry sub-issues to finish the remaining drafts.
Creating children from selected text, comments, pasted title lists, or templates is (coming soon).
Copy properties
- Team and parent are fixed when creating beneath an Issue.
- Priority and the primary Project are copied as editable defaults.
- The parent's assignee is copied when that person is still assignable and either you are the parent's assignee, or every existing direct child has that same assignee, which is always true for the first child. Otherwise the child starts unassigned.
- Labels are not copied.
Status automation
A Team manager can enable Parent auto-close in Issue Workflows. When all active direct children are completed or canceled, Integrity can move the parent to the configured completed status.
Cascade parent auto-close repeats that check upward through eligible ancestors. It does not reopen completed ancestors.
Automatically closing children when their parent closes is (coming soon).
Converting issues
Turn issues into sub-issues
Use Set parent on an Issue. For a selection, use Actions → Mark as → Sub-issue of…, choose a parent, and confirm the preview. Circular and cross-Team parent links are not allowed.
Turn issues into parent issues
Use Mark as → Parent of… for one Issue and choose its child. Or select several Issues and use Create related → Parent issue… to create a parent above them.
Turn sub-issues into issues
Choose Remove parent. The Issue returns to the top level without deleting its work. Bulk removal previews how many selected Issues have a parent.
Turn issues into Projects (coming soon)
Direct conversion is not available. Create a Project separately and link the relevant Issues to it.
Filter sub-issues
Use hierarchy filters to show top-level Issues, sub-issues, or Issues with children. Display controls can hide completed children. Only work you can access contributes visible rows and progress.
Work with sub-issue rows
Sub-issue rows use the same selection, right-click menus, Actions, and keyboard behavior as the main Issue table. Use Shift-click for a visible range and Ctrl/Cmd-click to toggle one row. Enabled property controls remain available when their values are empty; Phase requires a linked Project. See Select issues.
The section keeps several differences because it answers a different navigation question:
- It shows descendants of the open parent. Tree rails and sibling ordering preserve their hierarchy.
- Add sub-issue fixes the parent and Team, with inherited editable defaults, because creation begins within that parent.
- The progress ring counts direct children so each level has its own completion measure.
- Its display preferences are separate from main-table views, so adjusting this compact detail section does not change your workspace lists.
Hidden children leave the selection. Collapsing the section clears selection; reopening it does not restore hidden selections.
Display options
Use the Sub-issues display controls to choose visible properties and whether completed children appear.
The ring summarizes direct children, not the entire nested tree. Each level has its own progress.
Deleting a parent can detach surviving children or delete its eligible hierarchy, depending on the confirmed option. Restore does not revive children deleted independently. See Delete and archive issues.