Tasks NOT obeying or following predecessor relationships constraints in Gantt chart
I spent 3 1/2 hours searching for answers and trying to figure this out. Now that I have a simple answer, I wanted to share it. Anna in Wrike Support helped me solve it.
If your tasks are not following the predecessor dependencies, then do the following.
Check for "Start Constraints" on your tasks, or add, remove, and edit date constraints on the table portion of the Gantt Chart.
- Select a folder or a project from the left-hand navigation panel.
- Switch to the Gantt Chart.
- Click the gear icon at the top left of the table portion of Gantt Chart, right above the task numbers.
- Check the “Start Constraint” checkbox in the pop-up that appears.
- Click anywhere outside the window to see the new Start Constraint column in the table.
- Find the needed task and CLEAR the date constraint in the “Start Constraint” column so that it will obey the predecessor.
Your tasks will once again follow their predecessors and behave as you would expect them to.
What causes these constraints to get entered when you didn't do it? It can happen sometimes when changing duration of tasks that are in a linked dependency chain (what happened to me), or it will happen when you manually drag task bars on the Gantt chart view.
I hope this helps someone.
I have been running into this issue but it does not work for me. Can someone help?
Hi Komal Thukral 👋 Our Support agent has reached out to you about this via email - if you are still experiencing this, please reply to my colleague 🙂
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Hi I'm also having this issue, I'm guessing there is a bug where updating the dates of a project while in Gantt view overrides the auto-updates of dates even when predecessors are correctly assigned and there are no start constraints. Can someone help me with this?
Hi Kiran Sohanpal, welcome to the forums 👋
I can see you've discussed this with our Support team already 👍 Let me know if there's anything else we can help you with!
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I'm having this same issue, how does it get fixes? its messing with our programming.
Thanks Rich Warwick, very useful
Hi Yentl Flo, welcome to the forums 👋 I've asked our Support team to reach out to you about this 👍
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else!
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Hi, I am having the same issue and removing the start date constraints doesn't fix it. I have also opened up a case with Support but haven't received a response.
I need this fixed quickly as I have to present to a project team and can't as it is currently functioning.
Thank you, Paige
Hi Paige Springfield, apologies for the late reply.
I've looked into other tickets, and it may be that you're trying to change dates on items that were marked as “Completed” - in that case, dates won't be auto-updated. Can this be your case?
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This is an extremely frustrating way for this to work. It seems like my gantt often get messy when a start date was either accidentally set by someone or a bar accidentally gets grabbed. Then when I change a predecessor other tasks don't follow like they should. A very easy way to fix this would be to have start dates that override predecessors turn a different color, or have some kind of demarkation. Having to go through and find tasks that are not auto-syncing to predecessors, delete the start date, and then reenter the predecessor can be a huge waste of time.
I can imagine a scenario where I would want to set a task to have a predecessor and also a start date, with the option to have the gantt update to which ever comes first. Right now there is no way to tell if a start date is overriding predecessor.
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