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On a suggestion from a friend and a user, we’ve now implemented item dependencies in the product.

You can now make one item dependent on another. In addition to just being aware of relationships between items, if you rearrange priorities in a way that potentially breaks a dependency, the product will alert you.

Dependency Alert

Dependencies, if they exist, are shown beside each item in the Roadmap View. Iconic representations will immediately let you see if an item in dependent on another item, or if an item has dependents, or if an item is both a dependent and an antecedent.

Roadmap View of Dependencies

Clicking on one these icons reveals all the dependency details for the item:

Dependency Details

Managing dependencies is easy. You can add dependencies by just typing an item name in an auto-suggest box. You won’t see items that are already marked as dependencies and you can’t add an item to itself as a dependency. We’re smart that way!

Dependency Item Entry

An even slicker way to add dependencies is to just drag and drop an item from the Roadmap view into an item’s dependency list:

Dependency Drag and Drop

We hope you enjoy this feature.

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