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Mark a task as a prereq or dependency on another task i.e. relationship

Would be useful to set a task as requiring another task to complete before it can change state.

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  • Daniel Hudson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have users within our organisation asking for this feature. Any word on whether it might make the backlog or in development list?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi,

    In my company, we are getting full committed with Enterprise Office tools and features. Planner seems to be very handy on general tasks and for projects where more detailed is needed, but this "link usage" in between tasks is extremely essencial and a "must have".

    Are there any recent plan in order to have this in place?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would also add a dropdown in the "create checklist" field for a task so that you can select other tasks for the checklist so they can have "predecessor" options for other task to be completed in order to complete that task

  • Rick Walker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have found a third party chrome extension apps4pro planner gantt which does this exactly. I am now a happy user to Planner with this extension as I can able to set dependency between tasks and manage Planner tasks from Gantt.

  • Rick Walker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have found a third party chrome extension apps4pro planner gantt which does this exactly. I am now a happy user to Planner with this extension as I can able to set dependency between tasks and manage Planner tasks from Gantt.

  • Matt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely, being able to trace parent/child task relationships across multiple buckets would really improve functionality. At a granular level I have many cards in a sub task bucket, which can be easily linked to my high level task bucket by the colour coded labels, however to trace relationships of any sub task a level in between top and bottom currently requires the invention of some sort of alphanumeric categorisation system.

  • Kael Alberghini commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Perhaps make tasks "taggable" with an @Task Name setup in order to mark it as a dependency-

    ie, if I have to verify users before setting up an email account for them, setting the task as "@Verify User [show option to select task] Set up email account" and the task would check for completion of "Verify User" before allowing completion of "Set up email account"-

    or "Set up email account" would only become visible once "Verify User" is marked complete. (A possible granular account setting for individual users/teams?)

  • Andrew Trott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Will make it easier to manage projects as asking the common question "what is blocking this from getting done?" In turn this will create urgency on the blocking issue to be resolved.

  • David R Cheeseman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any hope for adding this? I just recently saw that assigning people multiple tasks works and if this could be added to the pool it would compete with Jira and other project management suites.

  • Lisa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding task dependencies is the only way this product will be useful for my projects; each step is dependent on the prior one to complete before the next can start, and the schedule needs to self-adjust accordingly

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