Dependencies

A task can wait on other tasks: mark it as blocked by them and TasksBoard shows a lock on its card until every blocker is completed. Adding a blocker is a Premium feature (“Dependencies”).

1. Open the task.
2. Click the lock button (“Blocked by…”) in the row of buttons under the details.
3. Search an open task of the board (any list) and pick it. Repeat for more blockers.

The blockers are listed in the editor under “Blocked by”; hover one and click the cross to remove it. The task’s card shows a lock icon while at least one blocker is open; hover it to see which tasks still block it.

Open a task that other tasks wait on: a “Blocks:” line lists them.

• Completing a blocked task asks for confirmation first (“This task is still blocked”); click “Complete anyway” to complete it all the same.
• When you complete the last blocker of a task, a message tells you ”… is now unblocked”.

Open the search filters and use the “Dependencies” filter: “Blocked tasks” or “Tasks that are not blocked”.

• A dependency is stored in the task’s details as a ⛔ blocked by: line followed by the ids of the blockers. Google Tasks and other apps show that line; leave it alone and TasksBoard keeps reading it.
• A completed blocker no longer blocks, but stays listed (checked) in the editor until you remove it.
• If a blocker is deleted, the reference is ignored and dropped the next time you save the task from its editor.
• Blockers can live in any list of the same board; a task moved to another board keeps blocking.