Use Case:
We have a project that we use as our content calendar. All published content (each content piece is a task) must go through a series of reviews and other sub-tasks that are dependent on subtasks under this same task. When I create a task and accompanying subtasks, then create subtask dependencies, then convert this task into a task template, the subtasks dependencies do not cary over to the task template. I would vote for subtask dependencies on task templates to be a solution here. As a work around, right now, we are just not using task templates and instead we are duplicating the task and allowing for dependencies to be copied in the duplication.
Example:
The task is named: News Article Title ABCDEFG
The subtasks are:
Create Content Draft
Select Featured Image
Edit Audio File (dependent on Create Content Draft)
Approve (Dependent on Edit Audio File)
As these are all within the subtasks, it would be good to be able to use the task templates feature, rather than having to create tasks with a status of āTemplateā that we copy from.
Yes! This is something that is lacking with the templates - would improve workflow a lot betterā¦ Especially in the case of awaiting a review! Please consider this change
YES. I was surprised I had to dig this deep in the forum to see this request. I was so excited to implement detailed task templates for frequent types of requests our team fields regularly.
I spend too much time manually cleaning up dependencies because my team needs extreme clarity when a task is ready for handoff.
Unfortunately, until dependences are included in task templates, this feature is nearly useless to me. As @AshleyWright mentions, weāre going to have to keep using a ātemplatesā section and instructing users to duplicate the task.
It would also be great to be able to have a templated task added to another project (even better if the custom fields for those projects could also be set).
We got a premium trial largely to use templates and dependancies, and I was really surprised that they canāt be used together. This feels like a huge oversight?
Yes yes yes! Weāre struggling right now to utilize task templates without this being an available feature. Weāve started just creating actual tasks within a project that we title as a ātemplateā that can be copied when needing to add a new task to a project. But itās so convoluted and leads to all of those tasks and subtasks showing up in everyoneās My Tasks view. I would LOVE to just be able to use the actual task template feature for this!!
We are on the business trial after using the lower level for three years. We are also very surprised that task templates do not pull over dependencies. That seems like it should be a given and simple for the development team to implement.
Argh this is so annoyingā¦ about a month ago I finally converted all our ātemplatesā to proper task templates and it honestly never occurred to me that dependencies wouldnāt carry over.
I couldnāt figure out why some of our workflows werenāt working anymore, and only just realized now. Thankfully we donāt need to use dependencies a lot so only affects a couple of workflows, but itās still frustrating. I guess Iām the idiot for not checking first
Thanks for the heads up, @ceturley! I merged all duplicated threads with this thread to consolidate feedback. We hope to have news about this feature soon! Iāll keep you posted.
In template tasks, please provide the option to specify dependencies across subtasks. Then, when a new task is generated from the template, maintain those dependencies. Currently, template tasks contain a list of subtasks, which can have (relative) dates assigned, but otherwise they are not related to each other.
My team uses Instagantt for a Gantt style chart view and the dependencies are essential for us. The current workaround is that, after generating a new task (w/subtasks) from a template task, we have to manually click in to specify dependencies. (We do this in Instagantt because the UI is much better suited to this step.)
Bonus points if the dependent subtasks could have their dates āblockedā by preceding tasks. For example, if Subtask B is dependent on Subtask A being complete, but A isnāt scheduled to be done until May 1, then I wonāt be able to schedule B to start any earlier than May 1.
Extra ultra 1000x bonus points for implementing a Gantt-chart in Timeline view, but thatās another feature request.
Just FYI, subtasks created by the āCreate subtasks from a templateā rule action in our Flowsana integration do support and maintain dependencies (both among the subtasks and also between the subtasks and the parent task they get created under).
This is super important for us. Every time we create a task for a new content piece I have to go in manually and add the dependencies to all 10 steps. So I donāt get value out of using the Task Template at this stage, I have to leave a [TEMPLATE TASK] in my project and copy from that.
