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Headings for checklists

Headers in your checklist help you to group tasks into cohesive groups. This can be in the Didit hub for Jira or Confluence, on a Confluence page, or in a Jira issue Follow the instructions below to add headings to a checklist.

  1. A Jira issue with the Didit panel highlighted.
    A Jira issue with the Didit panel highlighted.
  2. Click the ”…” in the top right of the checklist to get it into edit mode if you aren’t already there.

    The Didit panel in a Jira issue with the ... menu open and the Edit checklist option highlighted.
    The Didit panel in a Jira issue with the ... menu open and the Edit checklist option highlighted.
  3. If you already have some checklist items, in a template or ad-hoc checklist, you can click the “H1” button next to the checklist item you would like to convert to a heading. You can easily retransform your heading to a task with the same button.

    The Didit panel with the H1 button highlighted.
    The Didit panel with the H1 button highlighted.
  4. If you don’t already have checklist items, you can use the prefix ”#” in order to directly type in your heading.

    Using the # symbol to automatically convert a new task to a heading.
    Using the # symbol to automatically convert a new task to a heading.
  5. In the end, you can have a nicely organized checklist with headings.

    A Didit checklist with headings.
    A Didit checklist with headings.

Did you know that you can know that you can expand and collapse headings? Just click the down or up arrow next to your heading to see!

A Didit checklist with the arrows next to the headings highlighted to expand or collapse.
A Didit checklist with the arrows next to the headings highlighted to expand or collapse.

The Didit panel with a heading and its tasks crossed off.
The Didit panel with a heading and its tasks crossed off.

Advanced JQL

You can search for the percentage complete based on each heading within a checklist.

Move a section in a template

A section is a heading and every task under it. In the template editor, open a heading’s ”…” menu and choose Move section up or Move section down. The section swaps places with the one above or below it. Save the template to keep the new order.

The template editor in the Didit hub with the sections Before day one, First week and Wrap-up. The First week heading's ... menu is open, and Move section up and Move section down are highlighted.
The template editor in the Didit hub with the sections Before day one, First week and Wrap-up. The First week heading's ... menu is open, and Move section up and Move section down are highlighted.
  • First and last section: Move section up is greyed out on the first section, and Move section down on the last.
  • Tasks above the first heading: They don’t belong to a section and stay at the top.

Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/checklistsheaders