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Feature Idea: Link to another card
Summary: Add a content type that is a link to another card. The link should have a "link type" e.g.
- (General / default) Is related to
- Depends on
How important this is to me and why:
Importance: Medium
Use cases:
- Link a main task card to a set of subtask cards
- Link to related cards
Additional context / similar features: Should be able to link to cards on other boards too.
Bonus: Cards that are linked to from other cards show the backlinks.
Also did a quick search, and both Trello and Notion support links to other cards / pages, but mainly in the form of a URL with minimal unfurling.
I think we could potentially go a step further by giving links an optional "link type". E.g. this could make building dependency graphs easier in the future.
Has anyone seen other and better ways of handling links between tasks or dependencies?
Another neat thing to have for these links would be the ability to open the link in a sidebar or similar, like in Roam Research, to being able to view both cards side by side.
Hi guys, thanks for your work on this cool software. ANy progress with this please?
Hi @LimitlessDonald, thanks for asking. Yes, short answer is we expect to start working on card links and dependencies towards the middle of this year. In the meantime, if you or anyone else has specific use-cases in mind, please share, as that will help us prioritize features. Thanks! cc @wuwinson.
@chenilim For my specific use case is: Master card/ticket with sub tasks/tickets/cards. The master card might have option to set bool/checkbox on sub tasks dependant on their status/progress.
Specific use case: Be able to group by this new type "Card Link" (today we cannot group by URL) in table view for instance (In this case it could also answer to this other Feature Idea #252)
@marcungeschikts, thanks for the input! That could indeed be a simple way to show a parent-child relationship (e.g. Epic-Feature) in a table. cc @wuwinson, @asaadmahmood.
Hi everyone,
Good to know that this feature starts to exist.
Coming from Jira software I definitely miss the Master task / sub tasks links. I use this a lot because I split my project into user stories which are features with user oriented description and acceptance criteria. Then those user stories are split into technical tasks with technical description and acceptance criteria ; which are not all assigne to the same person
Those come as one card that can be extended to see the full progress of the user story.
Here is a capture of the agile board I use.
Notice on this second picture that cards that have no subtasks are simple cards (below)
One point about this approach is that I use two boards to manage our project. The kanban board depicted on the pictures is associated to a sprint and only contains tasks this specific sprint. The backlog board that contains all the taks that will have to be done in the future and are not placed in any sprint.
Hope that this will bring some ideas to this awesome project developers.
