Name of Feature/Request:
Ability to automate Due Dates for Tasks located within Projects when an End Date is set on the Project - Tasks are created when Project is copied from an existing Project so a Project Type level setting could work
What financial, time savings, or quality of life improvements will occur with this:
Anytime a Project is created. Right now, it is a manual task of the person before them to mark their task as “done” and set the date for the next person’s tasks. Which, is already causing many human errors with either not inputting dates or not inputting proper dates that this request could help avoid. That waterfalls down to us having missed tasks and delayed orders. We are also a small company where we need the automation. Especially since some of our team members are not good at remembering to add the dates.
Attempted solutions so far:
Manually change the Due Dates on the Tasks.
Digging deep - Any additional Why behind this request / How was this accomplished before Striven:
We were using SmartSheet before this for our Project Management. In there, we were able to label tasks for each department. Each of those tasks had formulas that to created start dates, depending on when the previous task was completed. So each department could see what was on their list of tasks to do for each of the open orders and when they should start/when they should be finished by.
Our “project template” has high level/generic tasks for each department so we just copy the project and make a new one for each order we receive. Yes, there is an option to set an auto calculate start time on the tasks, but we would need those to auto set when a specific task or even milestone is completed. With the auto calculate as it is, the auto start date for each task starts when the project is created. We cannot calculate how long each task will task from the start of the project and then how long it would take to get to the next task because there are way too many variables for that.
