FF Relations in Plans

[Nicolas Mayans]

Hello Community! I want to know if I am missing something when using Plans. Any type of relation that is used in the incidences shows me only a graphical way as if it were SF but in truth it is FF. Is this how the tool is fully displayed?

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Nicolas Mayans,

The relations you refer to are dependencies. They basically represent how one issue impacts the schedule of another issue. Behind the scenes, they are based on an issue link that you define between these 2 issues and you can configure the behaviour in your plan in 3 different ways:

How they are displayed in the plan

In your plan, under view settings, you can select the dependency style. You can either display the link between issues as a line, going from one issue to another. This will rather be FS than SF or FF. Or it can be as a badge - no line at all, but just a marker on the timeline that one/more links to or from an issue are present.

How link types in Jira impact scheduling behaviour

Navigate to <yoursitename>.atlassian.net/secure/PortfolioDependencySettings.jspa to configure the link types you want to use in Advanced Roadmaps and how you want them to be used:

The scheduling behaviour in your advanced roadmaps plan

As advanced roadmaps has an auto schedule feature that can calculate a sample plan, you can tell the tool to either allow dependant issues to be scheduled sequentially (A must be completed before B can start) or concurrently (dependant issues can be scheduled at the same time). In a plan's settings, navigate to the scheduling tab, where you can choose the desired option:

Hope this helps!