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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Ion Mura
Some ideas for features to have:
- Optional: AI to create the links automatically (based on words and explanations)
- people that have editorial access to higher in hierarchy tasks (central, with most links to) to be able to edit tasks underneath or smaller, peripheral
- search inside PDFs and link them too
Why would be useful?
- people will see and understand easily relationships between different departments, SOPs, workflow, processes and so on
- will make it useful to navigate and understand te hierarchy of central, most used vs peripheral, less often used things
- will help AI map out and understand and explain processes better to new people that are learning the processes
- will reveal links between processes and notes even the ones we didn't observe
- will easy see redundant, or similar, or with a lot in common processes to potentially be merged, or combined or grouped to be done at same time
- when developing a theme, or exploring it - we have underhand all the ideas linked to that subject, area or link.
Obsidian is a perfect well known example. But there are others like:
HeptaBase
Readwise
PS: For the most part I chose ClickUp over Notion because of its mind maps view and documents. But it's time to improve one of its biggest advantages - graph view of mind maps of many to many.
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Allegra Kochman
Yes please!
Ivan Villa
Merged in a post:
Need a diagram that can show the relationships
KangKyu Lee
The relationship between tasks(or lists, folders) can be complex especially if there's a high dependency between them. Instead of clicking on each task to view its relationship, it would be more effective to see all the relationships in a diagram format to estimate the impact
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Jordan Bernhardt
A bit of a bummer to see this request dating so far back. Between the the mind map and whiteboard there really should be a way to graph dependencies without assigning them dates in GANTT
Mara
Ivan Villa I think it could be linked with this one too:
Dependencies are just a special relationship link.
Mara
Please !
It doesn't make so much sense to just have relationships as links in a list. Visualization is key in this.
I though it would automatically show in mind map but no.
In whiteboard? No.
Same in Gantt view, only dependencies are visible.
Also to easily (re)arrange your tasks relationships and dependendies this would be a life changer. To me right now, relationships are kind of useless without this feature/view.
Brian Murphy
10000000000% on this one!!
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