SPM - all my child tasked are closed but the parent task is not closed

[ClémentineB]

Hi Community,

I have a problem with parent task for a projetc in SPM : a parent task does not close while all child tasks are closed

Any advice ?

thx for you help 😉

[phil_bool_unifi · Accepted solution]

Hey Clementine.  
Firstly, this only applies to Projects.  If your tasks are on a Demand or other record, then the auto-close logic may not be present. 

If you're seeing this on a Project, there are a few things to check:
1) It might be that you're looking at a filtered list of project tasks, and there are others you can't see.

2) It might be you've modified the behaviour of the Percentage Complete field

3) It might also be that you've made some kind of change to the state values on your project or project tasks.   

I'd suggest testing to see if a new 'Pending' project automatically moves to 'Work in Progress' when the state of the first task gets updated to WIP.

If you're not seeing any change to project state when the project tasks get updated, check the business rule on the pm_project_task table called 'Set State On Percentage Change'.  That triggers changes to the percentage complete field as well as making the project inactive.