Merge Sub-Item Parent Summary Timeline with Item Timeline if no Sub-Items Present

[cdf (Carrie d.)]

On our team’s primary board, we have both items and sub-items. We currently have our sub-item timelines summarized on the parent item, but if an item has no subs, we need to create an additional Timeline column. This results in two side-by-side Timeline columns, where it would be helpful to have one merged column that either displays the sub-item summary timeline, or the items timeline if no subs are present, in one column.

I reached out to support and this is not currently possible with either a column or an automation.

[Julie3 (Julie Deschamps)]

We have the exact same issue in the other way around: we mostly have items with timelines information and sometimes we need to create sub-items with timelines information as well. If we want to have both timeline information at the item level, we need to have 2 columns.
It would be great to have the possibility to create sub-items with the same structure as items so that summary can be performed automatically.

[Admeirel (Adolpho Meirelles)]

@CSG @CXS

Please Monday Team, add this feature to the roadmap. It’s pretty much essential.

Also, please merge this request topic to others in the forum, such as these:

• Parent timeline syncs with subtask timeline - Feature requests - monday Community Forum
• Sub-item timelines not linked to parent timeline - Feature requests - monday Community Forum

Thanks!

[Fantasy-Media-Team]

Hey @Admeirel

We developed an app called subitem automations that’s solves most of subitem dependency use cases. Here are a few examples →

You can either make sure that the timeline of the parent item adjust to fit the timeline of its subitems →

Or make sure that the subitems fit into the parent item →

Or a simple rollup →

There are many other options but I hope this delivers the essence across.

You can find it in the monday.com marketplace in the platform or here - Subitem Automations - monday.com Marketplace

Hope that helps!