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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Create a parent-child relationship on the planning console

The WBS section of the planning console allows you to create parent-child relationships for new tasks or move around existing tasks in a new parent-child relationship. The position of a task in the hierarchy and the level of indentation determine the parent-child relationship it has with the tasks above or below it.

Before you begin

Role required: it_project_manager

About this task

In this example, the System Readiness Assessment task is a child of the Planning task because it is one level below the Planning task and is indented.

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Parent-child task example

Procedure

  1. Select a task in the WBS section of the planning console to highlight it.

  2. Select a combination of any of the following icons to create the task and move it or move the other tasks to create the required hierarchy:

    IconAction
    Add task above icon (
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Add task icon\)|Create a task above the highlighted task.|
|Add task below icon \(
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Add task icon\)|Create a task below the highlighted task.|
|Indent icon \(
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Indent icon\)|Makes the highlighted task a child of the task above it.|

Parent Topic:Using Planning console - Legacy

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