Hey there, I’ve organized several tasks within a ‘template’ project, each with a list of subtasks. The tasks basically serve as an individual marketing campaign (email promotion, webinar, etc.) with the subtasks representing the individual tasks that each member of the team needs to complete. I’m tr…

Coming back to this thread to note my workaround I’ve been using successfully for a while now. You can paste a task URL into the dependency “search” bar, allowing you to directly set dependencies without having to struggle with search results. This means you have to navigate to the prerequisite tas…

I made a task dependent on subtasks… on the desktop, it now removes the checkbox and says waiting on 4 dependencies, but on the mobile version, the checkbox remains and i can check off the task without the subtasks being completed… this seems wrong.

Did this ever get sorted? Subtasks apparently cannot be dependent on other subtasks. This seems like a bug.

Did this particular feature get cleared up? I still cannot see the list of subtasks that I need to chose from when I want a subtask dependent linked to the previous subtask. Am I missing something?

I’m still having the same issue as many of the users above! I have very similar parent tasks with identically worded subtasks - and I’ve had no luck narrowing the dependency search results so I can actually make a subtask dependent on another subtask.

I’d also be interested to know what Asana plans to do to address this bug. @Alexis , anything you can share?

FYI Alexis is no longer with Asana. @Marie and @Natalia are the current forum administrators.

I’m also trying to make subtasks dependent on other subtasks. Is this possible? We just signed up with Asana and really need this as a feature. Please let me know ASAP. Thanks! For more detail: The main Task will be a creative brief (within the marketing channel “Project”) and there will be multipl…

Hi @Kara_Jacobson and welcome to the forum! Yes, you can definitely make a subtask dependent on another subtask. One thing you have to remember is that by default, subtasks do not inherit an association to their parent task’s project (you have to manually make that association if you choose to). T…

I have the same issue. Not all parent tasks/subtasks are visible when setting dependencies.

Is there a way for a subtask to be dependent on a previous subtask? So if one subtask date get changed, the others will automatically be pushed back the same number of business days based on the original timing?

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Hi @Sarah_Moore and welcome to the forum!

My Flowsana integration provides an automated solution:

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