# how to best report "changed" for a group of tasks **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 16, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788 "2014-03-16T04:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xu\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xu\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Xu_Chen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788/1 "2014-03-16T04:34:51Z")
I wonder if there is a way to report “changed” for a group of tasks… For example, I want to have a play like this: - include: sub-play1.yml - include: sub-play2.yml “only when something changed in sub-play1” Or, a play like this: - hosts: group1 tasks: - t1 - t2 - hosts: group2 tasks: … “only when something changed in either t1 or t2 of the previous tasks” Maybe I can achieve this by getting access to the internal counter of “changed”? Or maybe there is a better way to do this? Thanks… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788/2 "2014-03-16T16:28:24Z")
Are you saying you might to see the change report on a role-by-role basis? This could be done with a custom callback plugin, but might take a bit of work. ---
**Author:** ![Xu\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xu\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Xu_Chen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-best-report-changed-for-a-group-of-tasks/14788/3 "2014-03-16T21:35:36Z")
Yeah, role-by-role is good enough. Is there a link to such callback concept? Thanks…