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Dependencies between issues : linking readiness

Added by Sergei Naumov about 1 year ago

Hi!
I have two issues in two different projects and I would like a readiness of one task to automatically update when it is updated in another one. Is there any type of dependency that would allow such a behaviour?

Thanks...


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RE: Dependencies between issues : linking readiness - Added by Mischa The Evil about 1 year ago

Yes, there could be. It depends on your meaning of readiness and some of your application settings. I'll elaborate.

If you mean with readiness the issue done ratio (i.e. the '% done'), you can use the subtasking feature to accomplish what you describe. In that case your users can define issues to be a subtask of a parent task if the role they have on the project includes the 'Manage subtasks' permission.
Now, to satisfy your requirements of 1) working in a multi-project situation and 2) getting an automated roll-up of the '% done' for the parent task, you possibly need to modify at least two Redmine application settings:
  • Allow cross-project subtasks (:cross_project_subtasks); set the scope so that the issues in your respective projects can have parent-/subtask relations (note: these relations are not some kind of furthermore unrelated issue relations);
  • Parent tasks attributes -> % Done (:parent_issue_done_ratio); set it to 'Calculated from subtasks' so that parent tasks will have their '% done' managed/derived/calculated automatically from their subtasks '% done' values.

If you experience further issues while configuring this setup, let me know. I hope this will help.

Mischa.

RE: Dependencies between issues : linking readiness - Added by Sergei Naumov about 1 year ago

Yes, it does work this way. Thanks.

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