How to find and open an existing task, edit its title and description, add comments, and review its activity and worklog.

Task Details and Discussion

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Editing and Updating Task Details

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Who can access a task

Once a task is created, the Assignee or Reporter can access it from My Tasks or from the relevant Project space.

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1. Where to Find and Open a Task

Open the task from My Tasks or the relevant Project space to view and update its details. My Tasks list with the My Tasks navigation entry highlighted and a task row available to open Open a task from My Tasks or the relevant Project space.

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2. Task Title and Task Description

Task information can be updated after creation. Edit the task whenever ownership, dates, description or other details change. Editing a task's title and description with the properties panel visible on the right Editing the task title and description; task properties remain available on the right.

Best practice

Update the task itself when something changes instead of keeping the latest information only in separate messages. This keeps one reliable source of task information.

Watch: Editing and Updating Task Details in the Video Gallery — updating a task’s fields, status, assignees and other details after it’s created.

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3. Adding Comments

Use Comments for updates, questions, clarifications and decisions related to the task. Enter the message and click Post. Comment box with an @ mention dropdown listing people to notify Use @ in a comment to select and mention a specific person.
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Write the update

Add the progress update, question or information in the Comments box.
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Mention a person when required

Type @ and select the relevant person to specifically bring the comment to their attention.
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Post the comment

Click Post to add the comment to the task discussion.

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4. Activity and Worklog

Why Activity is useful

Activity gives you a chronological view of what happened on the task, making it easier to understand its sequence of updates and actions.

Watch: Task Details and Discussion in the Video Gallery — opening a task’s details, reviewing its activity, and discussing it with comments. For linking a task to another task under Relations, see Task Dependencies.