Task Dependencies - the missing piece

[Rebecca_McGrath]

Hi all

Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their feedback and provide us with some context, this is extremely helpfuWe hear you and understand how dependencies could be improved. Improving task dependencies is on our Product teams radar and as always, we will plan these improvements around your feedback.

While some of the requests in this thread have been brought to life, such as a “Waiting” icon or a notification to let you know that you can now work on a dependent task, there is still more that could be added to make this feature even better.

To centralize feedback and make it easier for other users to add their votes to specific requests, I’ve gone ahead and close this thread in favour of you adding your votes to the threads below:

Auto-shifting dates for dependent tasks when dates changed in list/board view.

As the title suggests, it would be great if auto-shifting dates would also work when updating dates in list and board view. Ideally, I could change a date from My Tasks and have this auto-update dependent tasks instead of having to click into the project timeline view and update in there.

Prevent dependencies from being marked complete

I love the idea of task dependencies, but they’re not fully functional as is. If I have a task (Eat dinner) waiting on two sub-tasks (go shopping, cook dinner), “Eat Dinner” should be grayed out or otherwise uncheckable (is that a word? No? Oh.) until I’ve done the necessary subtasks. As is, I can go in and complete “Eat dinner” without having shopped or cooked. Without sub-tasks viewable in tree-view by default (ooh! do that!), it could be easy to skip an important step and check something of…

Include Sections and dependencies to CSV Export

Asana has some “categories” called Sections, Tasks, Subtasks and Marks, but the CSV file does not provide any information on the “category” Tasks have dependencies but those dependencies are not represented on the CSV file

Hide dependent tasks from My Tasks until actionable

Sometimes there is nothing you can complete until a previous step is done. This is where the dependent task settings come in. The problem is that the dependent task shows in your task list even though there is nothing to update or work on.Having tasks that are unactionable in your task list clutters the work flow and makes what is due confusing. For dependent tasks, you should be able to assign to someone for WHEN it becomes active. It shouldn’t show up in their tasks list until the previous ta…

Should I have any updates on these features, I’ll let you know in the relevant threads so be sure to add your votes!