Sub-Tasks and Planned vs Actual Resources

Sub-Tasks and Planned vs Actual Resources

Hi there,

If I set a budget of e.g. 10 hours to work on a task, then register 2 hours of work to a sub-task, those 2 hours will appear as actual hours on the sub-task, but will not be added to the hours worked on the parent task.

Since sub-tasks are by definition part of the parent task, I would consider this a bug, which limit the utility of what is otherwise an excellent feature. Do you think you might be able to do anything about it? Another way to do this would be to allow planning to take place at task-list level, with all tasks within a task list contributing to the overall actual resource use of the task list.
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