Weight sub-goals in a parent's progress
Make some sub-goals count more than others in their parent's progress with child weights.
Child weights let a more important sub-goal count for more of its parent's progress.
Before you start: an admin turns on Goal Weights in Settings → Goals → Advanced features. Roles that can manage product settings (Owners and Admins by default) see that page. See Advanced features.
Weights count only when the parent rolls up by Equal weighting. Time-based coverage, the default, ignores them, except when no sub-goal overlaps the parent's period and it falls back to a plain average. See How parent progress rolls up.
Who can do this: anyone who can edit the goal. By default that is its owners, and Org Admins and Owners. Team Admins can too when their team, or a subteam, owns the goal or has one of its owners. See Roles and permissions.
Set the weights #
- Open the parent goal. It must use the Children tracking method.
- Click the scale icon beside the tracking method selector. Its tooltip reads Configure child weights.
- In Child weights, type a weight for each sub-goal. Each starts at 1. To reset them all to 1, click Distribute Equally.
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