Hello Sabrina,

thanks for your message.
We released a new OpenProject version (5.0) recently, which changes the navigation in several places. Therefore, the tutorials are indeed out of date in some places (we’ll update them shortly).

To address your questions:

1. The tab “status reportings” is now included in the timeline view. Once you create a timeline and select “Timeline” from the side menu you can select “status reportings” from the toolbar on the right side (just next to “Delete”).
2. The tab “dependencies” has been removed with OpenProject 5.0 since it did not server any major purpose (it was only used for second level grouping across a large number of projects which was quite an edge case and confusing).
3. This is indeed a bug which we’ll address shortly. The issue is tracked in #22178.
4. The tab “Members” in the project settings is not a separate entry in the side navigation (just above “project settings”) - since inviting members to a project is an important and frequently used feature.

The project types (standard and scrum) do not directly impact the available features in a project but they are for instance displayed in the timeline and are indirectly used to assign project status to status reportings (the project types define which project status can be used in a status reporting (can be defined in “Administration” > "Project types> (select a project type)).

Best regards,
Robin

Dear Robin,

thank you lots for this quick and detailled answer.

1., 2. and 4. are solved and understood :-)

3. I saw that you were discussing a solution and made an update to 5.0.6. Could you tell me when and how probably you expect this issue to be solved? I am new here and do not know how those processes work :-) And this relations functionality is unfortunately the crucial key factor for our project which decides if we can work with this awesome platform.

Thank you again for your efforts

Best
Sabrina

Hello Sabrina,

thanks for your feedback. :)
OpenProject 5.0.6 is scheduled for next Monday (December 7th) (#22180) and will most likely contain the bug fix.

Best,
Robin

Hello Robin,

thanks for the good news, perfect timing for us!

Will our test account be updated automatically for us to try it out on Monday or do we need to do something for it?

Best,
Sabrina

Hello Sabrina,

your test instance on openproject.com is automatically updated to the latest patch release (5.0.6) once the version is released.
So you don’t have to take any steps.
You can see which OpenProject version is installed by navigating to “Administration” > “Information”:

Best,
Robin

Great, thank you!

Looking very forward to seeing the “relations” function working :-)

Good weekend for you!

Sabrina

Dear Robin,

the new upgrade is not out yet and two questions came up:

• Do you have an idea when the upgrade is to be expected now? The change from “scheduled” to “release” made me wonder…

• Where in the bug list (Link: https://community.openproject.org/versions/784) can I find the problem that we had, i.e. the creation of partent and child work packages and other relations and dependencies?

An answer would help me lots to decide if we can stay with the wonderful OpenProject solution and wait for the upgrade.

Thank you very much!

Sabrina

Dear Sabrina,

OpenProject 5.0.6 has already been released and your instance has been upgraded.
However, we had to move the bug to a later version (5.0.7) since it took more time to fix than expected. 5.0.7 is scheduled to be released tomorrow (see #22184).
Sorry for the delay.

This is the work package with the error: #22178. It is assigned to 5.0.7: https://community.openproject.org/versions/785.

Best,
Robin

Dear Robin,

thank you for this quick and promising answer.

I didn’t expect the later version to be released by tomorrow already, that is great!

We stay tuned!

Best,
Sabrina

Dear Robin,

with the new upgrade to 5.0.7, the child and parent function is working now and allows us to create tasks and sub tasks. Thank you all a lot for this!

Two more questions follow from that:

1. Is there a way to link the main tasks with the sub tasks so that we can move a certain workpackages in time including all the sub workpackages which it includes?
2. How about the other relations functions (e.g. “dublicates”, “blocks”, “precedes”, “follows”)? Is there a way to make these work also?

Those kind of dependencies are crucial for us to plan our project and from the first impression I felt OpenProject is offering those functions but have now problems to find out how.

Thank you for any hint!

Best
Sabrina

Dear Sabrina,

1. The start and end date of a work package is determined by the start and end date of its child work packages. To move the start and end date of the work package and its children, you need to bulk edit the child work packages and update the start / end date for them. You can do this in the work package list by selecting all the child work package, right clicking and selecting “Edit” and then updating the “Start date” and “Due date” in the bulk update screen.
2. The other relation functions can be set on the “Relations” tab and they have the following functionality: “Duplicates” updates the status of the duplicated work package when the original work package is updated. “Blocks” prevents a work package from being closed unless the blocking work package has been closed. “Precedes” and “follows” create a relationship which which updates the start and end date of work packages when the preceding or following work package has been updated.

It appears that the “duplicate” and “follows” / “precedes” relationship is not working properly at the moment. I will take a look at this and open a bug report if necessary.

Best,
Robin