Child Cards Should Respect Parent Dependencies (and be hideable on My Actions)
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Micah Mowery
I have a project with a fleshed-out dependency chain. For the most part, only the parent cards have those dependencies, and the child tasks are all intended to be completed in one go, as a checklist, before the parent card is auto-marked completed.
Unfortunately, in testing this out, my My Actions list shows the parent card as an action, and correctly marks it blocked, and then proceeds to list the child tasks individually, but shows them as ready to be worked (completely oblivious to the parent dependencies).
What'd I'd like to have is:
1--My actions can be set to only show parent cards (child tasks not even shown on My Actions, as it's just clutter).
2--But if the Child tasks are present, they show as blocked if the parent card is blocked, especially when I have Strict Scheduling enabled.
I do not want to have to add the parent card's dependencies to each and every task, and end up spamming every card's Dependency summary section with non-sensical tasks.
For example, currently, I might have:
Website Design
Header
Main content
Footer
Website Development (dependent on Website Design being complete)
Header
Main content
Footer
As a Dev, my My Actions would currently say I am NOT cleared to start Website Development, but AM cleared to start Header, Main content, and Footer. What!? Just show me Website Development (no child tasks), and show it as blocked (incl. the children, if shown).
If I were to add the parent dependencies to the child tasks, then when I click on my Website Design card, my Dependencies section would be spammed with:
Header is waiting on this
Main content is waiting on this
Footer is waiting on this
Not only is this not helpful and a waste of space, but I don't know what these tasks are. I have no context. Are they my Header, Main content, and Footer tasks? How can I be waiting for myself? Is it somebody else's?
We have an extensive project plan (~450 actions), and I dread life with each one having duplicated dependencies, rather than just their parent cards.
Please help! Thanks
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Maria Steger
When we add a dependency to a parent action: prompt us as to whether or not we would like to add the same dependency to all subactions.
Kelley Bunge
Merged in a post:
Don't show subactions of blocked actions in My Actions, unblocked filter view
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Julia Bynum-Lewis
Subactions of blocked actions are also unable to be worked on because the main/parent action is waiting on something else to get done before the main/parent action and its subactions can be worked on. The subactions themselves aren't dependent on something because it would be tedious to assign dependencies to every single subaction.
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Maria Steger
Kelley Bunge
Please merge:
There is also a request asking to hide parent actions with blocked subactions:
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Maria Steger
Please make it an optional project setting.
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Cecilia Forsberg
Agree on this completely! Have the same problem with subactions of a blocked actions turns up as actions to be worked on even if the parent action is blocked! This is sooo wrong! Please fix ASAP! If the parent action is blocked by dependencies the subactions shoud be too!