Add lead/lag times between dependencies | Voters

Add lead/lag times between dependencies

building now

Sophia Kaminski

Is there any way to write a due date in this way: Due "3 days before XYZ Step"?

December 10, 2018

Bugra Oktay

Pinned

This feature is in our roadmap but isn't currently being worked on.

In the absence of it, creating dependencies with the desired lead/lag times and utilizing reschedule dependencies feature should help.

Vasil Enchev

Lead and lag is not in beta yet, so there is no separate invite for it. What is in beta is the four dependency types: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish. Lag will go out to that same beta group, so being in for the types means being in for lag when it lands.

Not in the dependency-types beta yet? Sign up here.

Vasil Enchev

updated the status to

building now

Lead and lag is being built. The badge is finally catching up.
 🎉
This thread has said planned since March 2024. It is not planned any more, it is in QA.
What you get:
 one signed number on the dependency. Positive keeps a gap, negative allows an overlap. Set it once and edit it in place, no deleting the link and starting over. Works on all four relationship types and counts in working days.
Why that matters:
 today a reschedule shifts every dependent task by the same number of days no matter how much room you left between them. The gap becomes a real value on the dependency instead of a coincidence of two dates, so it survives.
Next:
 critical path and float calculated from those gaps.
Not in the first version:
 percentage-based gaps, a separate calendar per relationship, bulk-applying one gap across a project.
No date from us, this thread has had dates before and they slipped. What is true is that it is in QA rather than a backlog.

Mormon Redd

Really appreciate the progress that has been made with the scheduling features. Unfortunately, the schedule is still unusable for us without the ability to use lead/lag times so we're paying for a separate subsciption and cobbling things together still.

Any update on when this will be available? Any other beta features that are available?

Vasil Enchev

Good news: lead and lag is being built right now, not just planned. The input on the dependency and the engine change that makes the gap survive a reschedule are both in QA, and critical path calculated from those gaps is next.

The other half of your setup already exists. The four advanced dependency types are in beta today: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish. Lag goes out to that same beta group when it is ready, so the two land together for the people already in.

Vasil Enchev

👋 Quick update from the ClickUp product team — and a chance to shape what's next. Advanced dependency types are now in beta, dependency enforcement is coming next, and we're actively deciding what to build after that — including lead/lag time. If this is something you've asked for, we'd love your input on a short (~4 min) survey: how you'd use it, and what's still missing. Responses go straight to the team building it.
👉 https://click-up.typeform.com/to/vUXTIFk1
Thanks for all the feedback that's gotten us this far! 🙏

Colin Esplin

I work in the land development space and this sort of task dependency functionality is extremely important to me as I create and manage construction schedules. For example, I need Task B to start xx weeks after Task A, or I need Task B to complete xx weeks prior to Task A completion. Not only that, but it would be great if you could "lock in" those dependencies so that Task A and Task B move in tandem (forward or backward) and always maintain that lead/ lag relationship. This feature would be a game changer for me!

Vasil Enchev

The first half is what we are building: a signed number on the dependency, positive for a gap and negative for an overlap, working on all four relationship types. Task B starting three weeks after Task A, or finishing two weeks before it, are both expressible.

The "lock in" half is where we would like your read. As planned, the number you set is a minimum, so if Task B already has extra room it uses that room first before the gap starts pushing anything. A distance that always stays exactly what you set is different behaviour. Which of those two matches how you build a schedule?

Rania Qaddoumi

waiting for this update, when i reschedule a task it pushes the related tasks with it, not taking into consideration the slack time

Bugra Oktay

Rania Qaddoumi: We will soon introduce a way to control that rescheduling behavior so that slack can be utilized instead of preserved. I'll send the beta invite for that feature in the upcoming weeks.

Rania Qaddoumi

Bugra Oktay is there any other ways to check whats new other than the emails?

Vasil Enchev

Best places to follow along are this thread and the ClickUp changelog at clickup.com/changelog. We'll post here when there's news on lead/lag times!

Allen Stone

Bugra Oktay Possible to get a beta invite for this? We're in holding pattern on refining our workflows until we can use lead/lag times.

Leif Erickson

This is something that would be of value for us. For reference MS Planner and Monday both offer this feature.

Bugra Oktay

This feature is in our roadmap but isn't currently being worked on.

In the absence of it, creating dependencies with the desired lead/lag times and utilizing reschedule dependencies feature should help.

Thomas Renaux

Since 2018 and nothing has ever been done, it's so important for some people.

Sylvan Schurwanz

I also support this request.

→