We can mark a task as dependent on a “preceding” task. That’s good, and the “preceding” tasks are listed in the dependent task’s view. But is there a way to see the reverse, i.e. for a “preceding” task to find the list of dependent ones?

@Kjell_Rilbe Good question - we haven’t been able to figure this out either. Would be great also if you could have a “diagram” of the tasks in order.

These tasks are noted among the “stories” as “thin gray line with blue dependent task title” amongst task comments.

@Myroslav_Opyr is correct that when a task is marked as a dependent it shows up in the conversation and in Advanced Search more you can look for “blocking” tasks. As simple fix would be to allow the story comment to have a drop down bar just like other comments to pin to the top. Then you could se…

Frankly speaking, “pinning” the story manually is not the thing I’d like to do since besides marking some task as being dependent upon the task would additionally require user to switch to “parent” task, locate the relevant story and pin it. That will often be omitted by users. I’d suggest adding a…

@Matt_Bramlage Is Dependent Task a field in the current API.

@Myroslav_Opyr do you think a first step would be to have Precedent Task or Blocking Task as used in the advanced search show the same amount of detail as the dependent task does and in the same location, with an extra feature of listing the due date that would refresh just like the Assignee curren…

Not sure I understood every detail of that, but it did sound like an improvenet at least. What I would like, is for a preceding task to show a list of dependent tasks below the list of task that it’s dependent on. This would form a logical “flow”: first a list of tasks that need to completed before…

Yes, agree with this all seems like an obvious need. Surprise that about 2 yrs later Asana doesn’t include this visiblity, very hard to know if a task precedes another - how would you even know to look in the comments, where it isn’t very easy to pick up that amongst all the other activity. Does a…

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