Related tasks

A task can be linked to other tasks — in the same stage or in any other stage of the project. Links are added with the plus button in the related tasks block.

What a link does and does not do

A link has no effect on the workflow. It blocks nothing, shifts no dates and triggers no automatic transitions. A linked task proceeds exactly as it would otherwise.

What a link gives you is access to hidden history. Opening a related task shows its technical description and its final report with photographs — so you can see what was actually done in the place where you are about to work.

Why this matters in practice

The clearest example is a stud partition and a wall-mounted television.

When a plasterboard partition is built, a timber or plywood ground is fixed inside it so that a bracket has something to bite into later. A month on, that wall has been boarded, filled and painted, and the person hanging the television cannot see where the ground is or at what height.

If the task "Fit TV bracket" is linked to "Build partition", they open the related task and find a photograph of the open frame with dimensions in the final report. No drilling blind.

Situations like this come up constantly: pipework under tiling, positions of water outlets, reinforcement behind wall units, points where cable passes through a floor.

The second use

A link is created automatically when work is sent for repeat execution. The unfinished task is added to the new one's related tasks, so the whole history of the mistake stays available.

Linking usefully

Link by place, not by time. A link is useful between jobs that touch the same piece of wall, floor or ceiling, even if they sit in different stages months apart.

Linking tasks that merely happen in the same week but never touch each other adds nothing and clutters the card.

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Interim and final reports

Completing a task

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