My dependencies are not aligning my timelines

Hi everyone 👋

I’m building a template for a project workspace and could do with some help understanding how dependencies are behaving.

The workspace contains around 11 projects, each representing a different workstream. Within each project, we’re creating tasks. Each task has:

• a duration (in days)

• a timeline column, which is driven by that duration

• a dependency on the previous task

The idea is that once the first task’s start date is entered, all subsequent tasks will automatically schedule finish-to-start, based on their durations. This is intended to be a mobilisation plan template, so we can duplicate the workspace, enter a start date for task one in each project, and have the full plan mapped out automatically.

However, I’m running into an issue:

• All dependencies are set to Strict

• Despite this, tasks are lining up as start-to-start, not finish-to-start

• I don’t see any option to change the dependency type

• The settings shown in monday.com training videos for the dependency column aren’t appearing for me

Has anyone experienced this before, or knows why the dependency options might be missing / defaulting to start-to-start? Any guidance would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance 😊