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Planner Task Dependencies and Task Ordering
I agree with your point, if you allowed dependancies it would get complicated and people would try and build plans within it better suited to msproject. However I dont think it would be a big deal to allow decent sorting and some sort of linking or cross referring of tasks. It'm also hoping that recurring tasks can be built in. Recurrences are no problem for outlook so why not this. I was a bit disappointed with planner when i first saw it demonstrated as it came across as a half hearted application a bit like some of the google tools that appear to do the job but in practice turn out out not to be usefull because of all the little things they dont do.
buyerjkd It doesn't necessarily have to get complicated. It depends what you use the dependancy for.
For me, I would like to be prevented from marking a Task as started if it is dependant on another Task being finished. Would be great if it came up with a dialog box saying 'Sorry, you cannot start this task until xxxxxxx is completed'. I don't think that would complicate things at all.
Just my thoughts on it... 🙂
Technodude
100% agree with you.E.g. if we check what Jira has to offer for task dependencies, we might quickly realize that Teams is still behind in the task management capabilities and all comments about it not being a waterfall PM solution just sound to me like an excuse at the moment.
- I agree, this seems like a simple request, since often times task a must be completed before task b can be started, it would be nice to ensure the prerequisite task is complete.
