Promote Subtask to Task
ActiveCollab offers a command that can quickly convert subtask to a task. To demonstrate how it works, we have created one task that has one subtask:
Response: HTTP 200, application/json (Hide)
GET /projects/1/tasks/1
Response:
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{ "single": { "id": 1, "class": "Task", "url_path": "\/projects\/1\/tasks\/1", "name": "Task #1", "assignee_id": 2, "delegated_by_id": 1, "completed_on": null, "completed_by_id": null, "is_completed": false, "comments_count": 0, "attachments": [], "labels": [], "is_trashed": false, "trashed_on": null, "trashed_by_id": 0, "project_id": 1, "is_hidden_from_clients": false, "body": "", "body_formatted": "", "created_on": 1430164341, "created_by_id": 1, "updated_on": 1430164341, "updated_by_id": 1, "task_number": 1, "task_list_id": 0, "position": 1, "is_important": false, "due_on": null, "estimate": 0, "job_type_id": 0, "total_subtasks": 1, "open_subtasks": 1, "completed_subtasks": 0 }, "subscribers": [ 1, 2 ], "comments": [], "reminders": [], "subtasks": [ { "id": 1, "class": "Subtask", "url_path": "\/projects\/1\/tasks\/1\/subtasks\/1", "assignee_id": 2, "delegated_by_id": 1, "completed_on": null, "completed_by_id": null, "is_completed": false, "is_trashed": false, "trashed_on": null, "trashed_by_id": 0, "created_on": 1430164341, "created_by_id": 1, "updated_on": 1430164341, "name": "Subtask #1", "task_id": 1, "project_id": 1, "due_on": null } ], "task_list": null, "tracked_time": 0, "tracked_expenses": 0 }
When we trigger promote-to-task
command, we'll get a task:
Response: HTTP 200, application/json (Hide)
POST /projects/1/tasks/1/subtasks/1/promote-to-task
Response:
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{ "single": { "id": 2, "class": "Task", "url_path": "\/projects\/1\/tasks\/2", "name": "Subtask #1", "assignee_id": 2, "delegated_by_id": 1, "completed_on": null, "completed_by_id": null, "is_completed": false, "comments_count": 0, "attachments": [], "labels": [], "is_trashed": false, "trashed_on": null, "trashed_by_id": 0, "project_id": 1, "is_hidden_from_clients": false, "body": "", "body_formatted": "", "created_on": 1430164341, "created_by_id": 1, "updated_on": 1430164341, "updated_by_id": 1, "task_number": 2, "task_list_id": 0, "position": 2, "is_important": false, "due_on": null, "estimate": 0, "job_type_id": 0, "total_subtasks": 0, "completed_subtasks": 0, "open_subtasks": 0 }, "subscribers": [ 1, 2 ], "comments": [], "reminders": [], "subtasks": [], "task_list": null, "tracked_time": 0, "tracked_expenses": 0 }
Subtask that we promoted is now gone:
Response: HTTP 404, text/html
GET /projects/1/tasks/1/subtasks/1