Create predecessor relationships by chaining tasks

Last update: July 26, 2022

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You can create predecessor relationships in multiple ways in Adobe Workfront. One method is by chaining tasks.

For information about predecessor tasks, see Overview of task predecessors.

By chaining tasks, you can allow the system to create the predecessor relationships automatically on selected tasks, rather than manually creating a relationship on each task yourself. Different predecessor relationship types can still be used between tasks.

Access requirements

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront plan*Any
Adobe Workfront license*Plan
Access level configurations*

Edit access to Tasks and Projects

Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can modify your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

Manage permissions to the tasks and the project

For information on requesting additional access, see Request access to objects.

*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.

Chain tasks to create predecessor relationships

  1. Go to the project that contains the tasks that you want to chain.

  2. Click Tasks in the left panel.

  3. (Conditional) Select Autosave in the upper-right corner of the task list, then select the tasks that you want to chain.

    IMPORTANT
    Chaining tasks in a task list is not possible when you manually save changes to tasks or use the Timeline Planning mode for saving tasks.

  4. Right-click the selected tasks, then click Chain.

  5. Select from the following dependency types:

    • Finish-Start
    • Finish-Finish
    • Start-Start
    • Start-Finish

    For more information about predecessor dependency types, see Overview of task dependency types.

  6. (Optional) Click Unchain if some of the tasks have been previously chained.

    CAUTION
    Only sequential predecessors are removed by using the unchain option when bulk editing tasks.

    Your selected tasks are now linked by predecessor relationships.

More help on this topic

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