Due dates in cross-project dependencies (including My Tasks) should be updated

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Hi all,

TL;DR - Changes to due dates on tasks with dependencies across different projects should update due dates of dependent tasks in all projects (or pop out a modal asking user to approve date changes in other projects).

My use case: I have projects with many components. Sometimes, individual components will spawn new projects that have a few tasks/milestones multi-homed back to the original project.

My ask: I would like those multi-homed projects to have dependencies in both the origination and the spinoff project. When a multi-homed task’s due date is updated in either project, I would like those changes to be reflected in both projects’ dependent tasks.

I have read this forum post, which leads me to believe that (as of '22) this functionality is not supported (without using Flowsana, which is unfortunately not possible for my org).

Does anyone have any workarounds (or best practices for process) that they have implemented with their teams to allow this type of cross-project collaboration?

Dependency Shifting from My Tasks
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@Stephen_Li, All I can think of is using a date changed rule to add a comment @mentioning someone perhaps to manually deal with the issue.

(I tried the List view Update dates for dependent tasks and, predictably, it too doesn’t work across projects.)

If there isn’t a Product Feedback, you could turn this into one.

Thanks,

Larry

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Currently (if your dependency settings are set for this), if you change a due date for a task within a project, it affects the due dates of downstream dependencies. However, when I change a due date from “My Tasks”, no dependent tasks are affected. Is it possible to change settings so that the dependencies are affected from the “My Tasks” tab, not just the projects themselves?

My team uses My Tasks to manage our workloads across projects and it’s messing up our projects to not have this feature. Has this been a problem for anyone else?

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It is actually not related to My Tasks but rather “changing a date on a task will only shift in the same project” so if you update a task from a project A, if the task is also in project B, I believe it won’t shift there. My Tasks here is considered to be a “project” of some sort. At least that’s my current understanding.

At the moment that’s a know limitation but you were correct to create a Product Feedback, make sure to upvote it.

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Welcome, @1212892215695057,

I’ve merged this topic into an existing one where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the Vote button at the top-left. Existing votes will be merged.

Thanks,

Larry