Subtask blocking support in Gantt?

[David Kerekes]

Does Gantt Chart support automatic recognition of subtasks blocking a main issue, and setting dependencies accordingly (or anything similar)? We are looking into deploying it in an issue-heavy enviroment with a lot of issues repeating again and again, so it would be useful if we could automatise linking on issue creration.

[Frank Polscheit · Accepted solution]

Any workflow function for blocking other issues will not be taken into account.

But Sub-Issue handling: an issue and specify a planned start date (end date is not necessary nor estimation of effort, here). This issue will not be displayed on the Gantt-Chart, yet. Then create a sub-issue including an original estimated effort but without any planning dates: it will be scheduled automatically and the planning dates of the parent will be adjusted resulting in being all together displayed on the Gantt-Chart. You can create other sub-issues in the same way. The sub-issues will be treated as being linked by a finish-start dependency implicitely. So, they are building a sequence per assignee. Having different assignees, the related sub-issues will be scheduled in parallel sequences. Re-assignment will force an automatic re-scheduling. This functionality shall reduce a lot of manual efforts while entering and planning (sub-)tasks!