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ogy@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

if you do Gantt charts, please make sure you implement as many dependency types as possible - most of the power of gantt charts lies in how depencies allow changing one thing allows automatic adjustment of the entire timeline, but almost all of the tools I've used have only implemented "this task starts when that task ends" which is infuriating

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besstiolle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thank you so much for your feedback.

This is indeed a feature that would be interesting to implement—offering three types of links between two tasks:

One would be a flexible link that allows the end date to be moved without affecting its downstream tasks

The second would be a dynamic link that maintains the gap between upstream and downstream tasks regardless of any changes to the end date of the upstream task

The last one would be a semi-dynamic link that simply shifts tasks backward to stay on the critical path of a set of tasks.

Of course, I need to consider all the constraints this might create in the current user interface. But it’s a very interesting idea that I hadn’t considered before.
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- ogy@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You're very welcome! Just to be clear, these are the types of dependencies I was thinking:
  
  this task can only end a set time after that task ends (the cleaning of the job site can start during the job, but can't end until the job does)
  
  this task can start after that task has started (I can start processing lab data after the first experiments have come in - I don't have to wait to the end)
  
  etc.!
  
  I think it should be possible to define many dependencies / constraints and have the program simply freeze and flag when there are conflicts due to overdefining. I'm sure there's a way to calculate the degrees of freedom, though the math isn't something I can be bothered with rn haha
  
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