While I have read several options for workarounds, it would be great if the Subitem timelines (earliest Start Date and latest End Date) rolled up to the Item Timeline, instead of a new column being created. The current functionality creates challenges if you want to tag a parent Item in a dependency to a subsequent task. Again, while you can create a Mirror column, I don’t believe you should have to. It should be part of the base product.
Same request for Subitem Status, although not as pressing.
Such a basic project management feature is missing from the platform and unfortunately is not available. This is a huge show stopper for adoption for task and project management. Monday.com team please prioritize this feature.
Completely agree. Rolling up into a separate colum is of no use as the item might be in a dependency chain and this won’t reflect a change of dates in sub-items unless there’s a manual updarte of the item timeline to match the sub-item roll-up. Worse, you don’t seem to be able to setup an automation to say something like:
When sub-item-rollup-timeline changes, copy those changes to the item timeline
We developed an app called subitem automations that provides robust automation capabilities to subitems. Here’s an example of how it can be applied in this case →
The marketplace app Rollup Subitems rolls up subitems columns to normal parent columns. With this you can use the parent column to enter e.g. a timeline directly if the parent does not have subitems.
Agreed, this is a basic feature of parent/child tasks that should be part of the main product. Due to data privacy, I am loathe to add extra data processors into the mix, not to mention incurring additional costs by using marketplace developments.
Would so helpful if this was a feature instead of having to use third-party apps. In my situation, I’m not able to use a third-party app unless it goes thru a whole approval process.
Having this as native feature to project management functionality should be included - this is a basic project management time management method. Having to go through a third party paid for option works but isn’t a great outcome.
If you’re open to using a 3rd-party app, you can find the automation to rollup subitems timeline (and other columns) in our Subitems Pro Automations app:
This should be included functionality from Monday. It feels gross that you have to engage in all of these side subscriptions with app creators to get features that are just common sense for project management use cases.
