Advanced Dependency Options
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Jeremy Benson
Many times when scheduling I need two tasks to finish at the same time and want to know the required start dates. I would suggest that additional dependency options other than "blocks" or "is blocking" like Start/Start Start/Finish Finish/Finish and +/- days modifiers are needed.
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Bugra Oktay
👋 Hello everyone
We are currently building these advanced dependency options and we'd like to get your take on how these should be represented in our UI.
Please provide your thoughts using this survey.
As always, your input will shape this feature.
Thanks you!
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Max Kesler
Can someone share a link to a webinar or given a general update to the possible gantt start start finish finish or available float/slack actions in gantt charts?
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Jordan Cooperman
When Gantt view is sorted by start date (which is 90% of my Gantt views) and a task with dependencies is moved earlier or later in the timeline, it bumps the related tasks out of view and requires a manual refresh to place them back in the timeline. This wastes a lot of time refreshing every time a task is moved in a timeline. Apparently this is a known limitation. Automatic repositioning of the related tasks into the timeline as sorted without refreshing is needed.
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Cheryl Aquilina
(1) Start and end dates of parent tasks should automatically change to the earliest start date and latest end date of it's subtasks. If this does not happen, one cannot set a dependency on the parent task as dates are currently not set.
(2) If a task is overdue, but it's end date is extended so it's not overdue anymore, the status should not remain 'overdue' but change accordingly.
(3) If a dependency task has it's start or end date changed, the task which is dependent on it should have it's date changed only if the change impacts the critical path.
E.g.
Task A finish date : 10/11/2025
Task B start date: 20/11/2025
Task B cannot start until Task A is finished, and Task
If Task A finish date moves to a date less than 20/11/2025, Task B start date should not be impacted and should not move.
(4) Duration should be automatically calculated if start and date date are populated. Similarly if start date and duration are set, then end date should be automatically calculated.
(5) Indenting and outdenting tasks should be as easy as clicking a button as it is currently not working well and time consuming.
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Robert Camilleri
Hi. When there is a slack/float in the date between the predecessor and successor. Please consider including a way that when you change a predecessor the date of all linked successors are not amended throughout the plan with the same number of days.
Ashley Akacich
This would be very helpful for my teams as well!
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Joseph Plaizier
It seems that these days this is crucial basic project management functionality.
We just moved off another platform that had this feature and we were surprised to learn that ClickUp didn't have it. Please get this created as soon as possible.
Thank you for all your work!
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Sylvan Schurwanz
I support this request.
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Bugra Oktay
👋 Hello everyone
We are currently building these advanced dependency options and we'd like to get your take on how these should be represented in our UI.
Please provide your thoughts using this survey.
As always, your input will shape this feature.
Thanks you!
Robert Hudman
Bugra Oktay - survey done
The one additional request I put in is to be able to have duration adjusters in the relationships.
For example SF+2, mean the second task start two days after the first task finishes.
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Michael Kuczewski
Bugra Oktay will this be only for the higher tiers like was done for duration? I see these both as basic functionality of project management tools, not premium features.
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Gaelle Codron
Bugra Oktay I forgot to mention that we also want to be able to apply delay to the dependencies. When will the dependencies be launched? Pretty urgent here!
Kyle Beatty
Bugra Oktay Hey Bugra, survey completed! Any update on when these advanced options will roll out? I also second the request to be able to add lag times.
Andy Miller
Any chance this is going to relate to this - https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/reschedule-dependencies-when-moving-the-task-to-an-earlier-date
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Bugra Oktay
Andy Miller - Hi Andy, moving a blocking task forward and backward should already be moving the dependent tasks the same amount when reschedule dependencies setting is on. Please give this a try and let me know if it doesn't work for you.
Andy Miller
Bugra Oktay Hey. This definitely did not work, unless in Gantt view, i guess. i was hoping for something outside of gantt view workaround
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Bugra Oktay
Merged in a post:
Traditional Predecessor, Relationship or Dependency
Vanessa Machado
It would be helpful if the dependency feature was more representative of traditional PM relationships such as:
Finish-to-Start
Finish-to-Finish
Start-to-Start
Start-to-Finish
It would also be helpful if this was simply a number referring to a task on the list with a field available to be shown in list views. The only other way to do this now is through the Gantt view and it is not the best/easiest way. Dependencies, predecessors or relationships should be more geared towards project managers and reduce the number of clicks required to prepare timelines.
Also including Lag times!!
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