From the Project level, can we create a new filter called ‘Blocker Tasks’ that displays tasks in that project that are ‘blocking something else but have no blockers themselves’. Or as referenced in this ( Hide Completed Blockers in Blocked By field in List View ) ticket, “show only incomplete dependencies in the ‘blocked by’ field”.
We could then add a column to the Portfolio Timeline view similar to ‘Overdue Tasks’. This new field could be called ‘Blocker Tasks’ and should be an aggregated field that is calculated based on the total of the amount of tasks in that project that are ‘blocking something else but have no blockers themselves’.
The reason we want to be able to identify these tasks is because while they aren’t Overdue, they are opportunities for us to nudge people to complete their tasks sooner rather than later. And frankly, some our tasks dont always get Due Dates set - so the Overdue Tasks column becomes irrelevant. Therefor it would be better to simply enable us to identify the Tasks that could be completed sooner to allow the ball to keep rolling and build allow the project to build up a buffer.
For context we have a Coordinator who oversees the Timeline view of a Portfolio. Their job is to oversee the Portfolio of projects, but primarily on weekly status update meetings they pull up the Portfolio Timeline view which allows them to quickly summarize each project, its upcoming milestones, current overdue tasks, and ideally with this request - display the amount of blocker tasks.
I realize theres probably some workaround for creating a binary field that exists on each task in every project and using a rule that runs anytime anything happens - if still blocked/being blocked by something else then set = 1 then summing that up etc etc, such a nightmare. If someone wants to share that feel free, I probably will end up implementing that. But the point is this should be native.
