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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 (-:

Accepted answers

Marc -Devoteam-

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.

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Marc -Devoteam-

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:

Smart Templates - example - Test Management Template.png

Smart Templates - Schedule.png

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

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