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Dependency graph

Nadav Maoz

It would be beneficial to visualize dependencies between tasks (also folders and lists) visually. This would enable easy identification of bottlenecks and critical paths.

September 10, 2019

Mara

Hi Bugra Oktay, any news about this?
Request made in 2019, 851 votes today, but no status for the roadmap :/
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Could it be an option in mindmaps? Or a crossover between a mindmap+whitheboard.
I personally don't understand what a mindmap view is for if it doesn't take that into account.

Julis Pándi

Adding to this - the Gantt view is great, but when planning, dependencies come much faster than the dates, and seeing a visual representation would be immensely helpful.

Yvonne Serhan

As our organization grows, there is an increasing need for a clear pipeline view of workflows that require review.

Teofrenz Ycot

Hi Bugra Oktay, bringing this up again and hoping this gets noticed. 🙏

Our organization is increasingly needing this. Our decisions have a lot of complex dependencies that don't get viewed easily using the Gantt View. Also, we tend to set out dependencies first before we ever set the dates.

Vincent Jongman

I would love to see a depedency Graph like Obsidian, where one can see (1) dependencies between tasks, (2) relations between Docs where other Docs or Tasks are mentioned. This way it would be much easier to see which Tasks or Docs are influenced or related when I change something or to have more structure over my documents/tasks.

Michelle Jacob

This is especially useful for making templates/routines. 
For example, I'm making a template board for our onboarding, which contains many tasks that are dependent on each other. It's been tricky to create because of the complicated dependencies, which are hard to visualise. I've resorted to using pencil and paper to map it out.
There's no point using the Gantt view because there are no start/end dates to any of the tasks (it's a template!)

Pierre Henry

I just started using ClickUp and so far it's almost a perfect match for my needs, but after creating a few tasks, I found myself looking for exactly this, a graph-style dependency (or in general, all relationships) graph for tasks.

Gantt is not a replacement, as in the planning stage (e.g. preparing user stories for a software feature) you want to map (and easily visualize) dependencies

before

setting start and end dates. In many cases we don't even use start and end dates at all as we work in Kanban style, we just start work on tasks from the backlog when we need work.

Ian de Groot

It is when the end date changes the next task doesn’t alter or advise of the creation of parallel activities. I work on physical product. Example shipping delays can impact when the next activity can start.

Bugra Oktay

Thank you for the feedback. Would the Gantt view help with this need to a certain extent? Is the limitation there the necessity to have dates?

Jordan Williams

Bugra Oktay the gannt view is nice for this but becomes difficult to decipher when dependencies start to overlap. An alternate workflow view without the dates driving the scale of the view would alleviate this.

J Matías Fernández

Bugra Oktay

The problem is that he Gantt is clearly made with the assumption that all taks will have a date, if two tasks are dependent on each other with no dates it won't look clearly, maybe be should try to be more graphical.

Jess Wielgus

Bugra Oktay Agree with Jordan Williams here. The Gantt view is fine for

simple

dependencies. As it grows more complex, the Gantt view no longer displays the relationships clearly. This is the primary reason why we cannot make use of Gantt just yet.

I like the suggestions from Ion Mura. Look at how Obsidian displays relationships between objects: https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/graph. It's a dynamic mind map -- not based on hierarchy, but rather on dependencies. If ClickUp could make it more dynamic (with e.g., directional arrows or different kinds of lines that tolerate different dependencies: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/advanced-dependency-options) then it would be a significant improvement on Obsidian. Dates are an issue because they aren't always available. Sometimes I'm trying focus on the relationships (separate from the timeline, like when all you have is a work breakdown structure). Hope that helps!

Justine Dechaine

Bugra Oktay The gantt view isn't great because you need to know the dates before you can start mapping dependencies. sometimes you know the workflow but not the dates.

Kim Hoang (BF)

Bugra OktayYes, Graph view/dynamic mind map as Obsidian has now is a much better way to display and visualize the task dependency when we don't always have a Start or due date available.

Brandi Norris

Jess Wielgus 100% agree with this!!!

Henrik Hjort

Bugra Oktay Exactly I have many times hand the need for at mind map to visualize the relations between tasks (bugs, suppliers, component connection, Partnumbers etc.). Relations are not always simply start and due dates. For me it would also be ok for it not to be super dynamic, like the obsidian plugin.

Bugra Oktay

Thank you for the insights. All noted. I hope I'll get you an update on this soon.

Mahdi Porkari

I literally have to move to another platform after using ClickUp for years because of the absence of this feature.
It gets too hard to keep track of chains of reasoning/dependencies after your data gets more than a certain point.
I hope they add it someday.

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