Plan auto-schedule always schedule tasks from today's date instead of dependencies

[Alexis Therier]

Hello,

I'm having troubles understanding the behavior of auto-schedule in my Plan.
I've made a very simple example Plan to debug it but I have the same issue.

I'm working on a Kanban board where the Team set is only me with a very limited bandwith to be sure to plan every task sequentially for this example.

Dependencies are very clear : 

Auto-scheduler is on and can overwrite everything

The fields used are well configured for me

Here is my timeline with Task 1 and 2 fixed dates and 3 and 4 with estimates but no start or end dates

Considering the dependencies, Task 3 should be planned Starting Feb 2 and Task 4 as soon as the third one is done.

Here is the result I'm having with the auto-schedule : 

It does not take into account the dependency between Task 2 and 3. Why does it takes today as the start date of Task 3 instead of Task 2 end date (which is already set manually) ?

Any help to solve my headache would be very appreciated (-:

[Marc -Devoteam- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Alexis Therier 

I can't see a dependency between 2 and 3.

Which link is used for the dependency?

By default only Blocker link type is used in a plan, you need to add other link types to be shown in the overall plan settings.

Also the checkbox in estimation should be set.

[Alexis Therier]

Hi Marc and thanks for your answer.
You are right I tried several things and modified the "block" by "has to be done before" which wasn't the link parametered.
Thank you, it's good to have someone who takes a step back to catch these kinds of errors. 

[Olga Cheban _TitanApps_]

hi @Alexis Therier ! 

If you are open to trying out marketplace solutions, I can recommend the Scheduler available in our app, Smart Templates for Jira. It works well for standard or recurring tasks. It lets you save any set of work items as a reusable template and then generate new work items from that template on a schedule. 

For example, if your team performs regular regression testing on the same functionality every sprint, they can save their standard set of test cases as a template and then schedule auto-generation for every 2 weeks:

This Scheduler allows you to set different intervals, use Cron Expressions, plus you can use Smart Variables for the Due Date field (for instance, {{now.plusDays(x)}} ). This helps you adjust planned deadlines between the work items generated from your template.

I hope this helps!
Please let me know if you have any questions