When using the Timeline view, you might have realized that if you have a dependency between two tasks, one finishing the same day the next one starts, the dependency will show as conflicted (red).
As a project manager, be careful and be aware of that behavior. Sometimes, your schedule donât allow you to have the next task start the next day just to have a nice timeline! But if you can have the task start the next day, that might be wise just to avoid the visual conflict.
And remember: when a task is completed, the assignees of the dependent tasks are notified, so they can start working early!
Also remember: you donât get notify of actions you did yourself, so you wonât be notified if you completed a task and that frees up your task to begin!
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Excellent tip! Thanks @Bastien_Siebman 
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The idea that, as a project manager, you should push tasks to start a day âlateâ just because the timeline shows a red line is a little bit mental no?
Does it not make more sense to (either by default or by a setting) only show the red line when the blocked task it as least 1 day before the end of the blocking task?
Itâs frustrating, cause I hate the red lines! However I canât justify pushing tasks back a day just to make my timeline look pretty. The assumption by the software that every task must take at least 1 day is a major flaw in my opinion.
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@Emily_Roman do we have a product request on the matter we can upvote?
Hi,
Do we have a fix for this yet?
I love the red line feature as a visual way of looking for planning issue - but I do need some dependent tasks that take less than one day.
I see it appears to be fixed.
Adding a time to the task due date allows dependent tasks on the same day to be shown without the red line
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