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Allow Cross-Project Predecessors on Templates

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Level 2

12/19/23

Description - I'd like the ability to be able to create cross-project predecessors in project templates. Currently you're only able to create internal predecessors in templates. Cross-project predecessors are very powerful but can be time consuming to set up each time a new project is created and can cause user error if a person either forgets to set up the predecessor or does it incorrectly. 

 

Why is this feature important to you - Our users work cross-functionally very often and we'd like to be able to link tasks between the different teams without having to manually create the predecessors for every project. 

 

How would you like the feature to work - Ideally, we'd be able to set a cross-project predecessor on a task on Project A Template to a task on Project B Template. When a project is created from that template, I'd like to be able to either create a new project for all linked templates OR select an existing project to link. 

 

Example 1: Marketing creates a project using Template A that has cross-project predecessors for Template B (which belongs to the Sales team). On the 'Create Project' page, they have the ability to create both projects. 

 

Example 2: Quality has already created a project from Template B but didn't sets up any cross-project predecessors since Marketing hadn't yet created a project from Template A. When Marketing goes in to create a project from Template A, they have the ability to select an existing project to link their predecessors to (Quality's Project B).

 

2 Comments

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Level 1

1/5/24

YES PLEASE! PREACH.

 

It takes so much time manually adding cross-project predecessors to each project created from a template. This would be such an amazing add. 

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Level 3

1/10/24

This would be a great feature! Would save a lot of time when the cross project predecessors are used every time for certain project types.