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title: The task panel
description: "Everything a task holds once you open it: properties, description, subtasks, comments, attachments, logged time, and the archive."
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  label: The task panel
  icon: list-checks
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Clicking a task anywhere — a card, a list row, a bar on the timeline — opens the panel. It is the same panel everywhere, and everything in it saves to the task you are looking at.

![The task panel, with the description, subtasks and the properties column](/images/tasks/detail.webp)

## The properties column

Down the right side is every field the task carries. Status, priority, type and assignee are pickers. Start and due dates open a calendar and clear with the **×**. Tags add with the **+**.

Two of them earn their own paragraph:

**Estimate** is how long the task should take, in hours. **Time spent** is how long it actually took, and the **+30m** and **+1h** buttons next to it are the fastest way to log time without doing arithmetic. The bar underneath shows the two against each other, so a task at 150h of a 360h estimate reads at a glance.

Below the pickers, **Reporter** is whoever created the task, and **Created** and **Updated** are the dates. **Activity**, at the bottom, is the running record: who created it, and what changed since.

## Description, and Lia

The body of the panel is the title and the description, both editable in place. **Improve with Lia** takes what you wrote and tightens it, which is most useful on a task somebody dropped in as five words during a call.

## The three tabs

**Subtasks**

Tasks inside the task, each with its own code, owner and checkbox. The counter at the top reads "1 of 3 done" with a bar, and the **+** adds one. Use them when a task has steps somebody else might take, and leave them alone when a checklist in the description would do.

**Comments**

The conversation about this task. Comments carry the author and the time, can be edited or deleted from the menu on the right of each one, and an edited comment says so.

**Attachments**

Files on the task. **Add attachment** uploads, and each file can be downloaded or removed.

![The comments tab on a task](/images/tasks/comments.webp)

## The header actions

The icons at the top right of the panel, in order: duplicate the task, copy a link to it, archive it, delete it, close the panel.

**Copy link** puts a URL on your clipboard that opens the workspace on this exact task, which is what you paste into Slack instead of describing it.

**Archive** takes the task off the board without deleting anything. Archived tasks come back with **Show archived** in the board filter, and the panel shows an **Archived** badge with a **Restore** next to it. The confirmation toast also carries an undo.

**Delete** is permanent, names the task in the confirmation, and cannot be undone.

## Where to go next

**[My tasks](/tasks/my-tasks)**

The same tasks, filtered down to yours.

**[Boards and views](/projects/boards)**

Where the task sits, and how to find it again.