automations that run vertically: change one subitem based on a different subitem

When one subitem is marked as Done, I want to set the status of a different subitem.

I found this discussion: " Change Status of Subitem when Other Subitem Stat" but the suggested solution doesn’t work. Your representative confirmed that automations only work within a single Item/Subitem.

Automations that don’t run between subitems don’t help streamline interconnected work. I need to cross-reference and adjust.

There is simply no order of things (by default), so you can’t select next, previous, upper, lower etc… However, you can add a dependency column to your subitems and mark which subitem is dependent on another subitem. Like:

Subitem “sub 2” is now dependent on subitem “sub 1” and when adding this automation to the board:

The status of “sub 2” will change to “Working on it” when the status of “sub 1” is set to “Done”