Dependencies are great! Shortcuts are great! Let’s have shortcuts for everything, including dependencies!
Whenever I have to use the mouse in Asana, it’s a friction that slows me down and sometimes causes me to lose my train of thought. The more shortcuts, the more reliably I will be able to capture everything I want in Asana.
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us @Katriel_Friedman
I’m also a Shortcut Fan and I love the idea! Hopefully this is something we can implement in the Future 
I’m surprised this one didn’t turn up in search: there should be a keyboard shortcut for Make Dependent.
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us @Pierre_at_work!
I’m merging your post with an existing thread we have regarding this request to avoid duplication! I hope it’s OK!
Have a great day Pierre!
That would be a great feature!
Setting dependencies is currently a manual process that could be shortened with a shortcut. This would defintely help me to save some time rather than, clicking here, clicking there and here & there…
Shortcuts make a lot of difference on Asana, this one would be very valuable as well 
Yes pretty please ! 200 Make dependencies later in an evening I’m considering creating an old school macro ahah 
Yes, this would be awesome and would save 2 hours each day.
I’ve tried using Timeline, but it do not work well when you have 100+ projects.
It would be fantastic if there was an easier way to make subtasks dependent on one another. In timeline, you can drag the dots to connect two tasks, but in subtasks, you have to go into the subtask, click dependency, then try to find the other subtask you want in the dropdown (and sometimes the logical one doesn’t show up first, or at all), so if that happens, you have to go to the previous subtask, copy that link, then go into the other one and paste the link into the dependency section. It’s all quite a lot of work and time. We use subtasks so much in my company, so I’d LOVE it if there was a way to simply do a drag to add a dependency rather than having to go into every single subtask to set it.
Hi,
This is a common situation, when users discover subtasks, they all rush in and start using them, usually too much. And they quickly realize subtasks don’t work the way they expected them to work 
Maybe in your case you can setup a task template with dependencies between subtasks, and use the task templates? (not sure the depdendencies work though)
Oh we do use template tasks with the sub task dependencies already set up. But those moments when it’s something new, or when I have a one-off adjustment to the workflow can actually take a surprising amount of time to reset the dependencies.
I would LOVE to get away from using subtasks and use tasks instead, but that makes it really difficult to see what tasks relate to each other when it’s all in a big list, and it makes a project much messier and more difficult to navigate. Pros and cons of both ways I guess.
I am going to play y @Julien_RENAUD card here. He was part of a company that forbid subtasks. How did you do Julien? For example, let’s say a blog post. You need to research, write, proofread, publish. How did you put that into Asana?
Our blog workflow has quite a few more steps. lol Brief and assign, 1st draft due, 1st draft review, revisions, 2nd review, 2nd revisions (if needed), proofread, final approval, production, distribution. 
I tried NOT using subtasks once, but it required renaming every single step with the blog title or keywords so that people know what piece it was referring to. And there was no way to template that method. The subtasks are so much quicker. But I think there are other projects we have that don’t really need to be subtask based, so I’m absolutely open to ideas so I can share with my teams.
Hi @Wendy_Allen & @Bastien_Siebman
As Bastien said, we tried avoiding using subtasks, except for one use case: you are the owner of the task, and you use subtasks as for a checklist, and you don’t assign them to anyone (because according to me confusion starts once a subtask is assigned).
We always try to use sections and custom fields instead. A custom field was used to show the progress for instance (draft, review, …).
Hi everyone.
We are a construction company and we are loving using Asana to integrate our building planning and tasks and it would be really helpful to create tasks that are automatically dependant.
When creating a list of tasks they are, usually, dependent in the order we create them in our projects so it would be perfect to have an alternative shortcut (like Alt+Enter) to create a new task dependent of the previous.
I know it’s a super specific thing but I think it would be worth sharing.
Thank you!
This would be incredibly helpful – great idea!
Hi @Joao_Gabler,
Welcome to the Forum and thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us! I can surely understand how useful it would be to automatically set dependencies when creating tasks! I’ve gone ahead and moved your post to the #productfeedback category to allow you and other users to vote for this feature to be evaluated by our team for future updates!
On a completely different note, I just wanted to let you know that our Forum is also available in Portuguese, my colleagues @Barbara and @Vanessa_N will be more than happy to help
Have a great day!
Dependencies are super useful, but setting them up can be a pain especially with subtasks. We often have tasks that are subdivided into subtasks that form a dependency chain - subtask 2 depends on subtask 1, subtask 3 depends on subtask 2, etc. Setting it all up requires you to go into each subtask and set the dependency, navigate back up to the task to then navigate down to the next subtask and set it’s dependency… it’s all pretty heavy.
What I’d like to be able to do is set the dependencies right in the subtask list in the main task. And I can think of 2 ways to do it in terms of UI.
2)Some key combo that puts you in “drag to make dependency” mode like in the timeline view
The idea here is you hit some key and the subtasks spread apart a bit to allow the blue grabbers on each subtask and you just drag the connections to each other.
The bottom line for us is that the UX of setting up dependencies is still too heavy. We need something better with regard to dependencies and subtasks.
Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us @Matthew_McLaughlin! I’ve just slightly updated the title to make it more discoverable for other users. I’ll keep you updated as soon as I have any news about this feature or something similar
This is something I would love to see, as I regularly deal with tasks which have a large number of subtasks, with many dependent on others - not necessarily in order, but a content creation subtask for example might block 3-4 other subtasks, such as blog posts, email creation etc.
An ideal format for this would be some sort of “click and drop” between subtasks, so you could quickly and easily set all dependencies in the task view, rather than having to go into each individual subtask.
Please add the dependency shortcut so we can add to Task Templates in Bundles!