Cross column dependencies?

[blooop]

Is there a reason that the tool works for single columns rather than the entire board?

I was thinking of modifying the code to make it work for every card in the board and wanted to check if there was a technical/other reason why it supports single lists rather than the board.

At the moment I am working around this by putting everything in a single column, but its already causing other problems as I need to be able to move cards between columns for other reasons.

Thanks.

[ivanosevitch]

Hi Austin,
I'm not sure about the reasons of this design choice, as it was made early in the production creation. My best guess would be:

• It was faster to develop single-column handling than multi-column.
• It was adapted to the workflow of the development team that first used this tool (for own projet): in their scrum setting, all cards "ready to develop" would be stored in a single column. Then the dependency graph would be created, and only after the cards would be moved to the next sprint backlog.

I know some team have a use case with multiple column handling, someone even attempted (however could not finish) to implement this behavior : #13
Here is another tool that implements multi-column: https://github.com/DanielPopOut/graph-dependencies

What is the use case you are thinking about that would need multiple columns?

[blooop]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for your reply. That makes sense about the dev process.

I came across the other tool first, but it has other problems (syncing across multiple users) and this project has a better user interface, and the output graph looks much nicer.

The use case is I am making a long term road-map and wanted the dependency graph as a visual representation. However, if I want to move any of those tasks into an "in progress" or "done" column, they are now missing from the graph.

Thanks for the link to the pr. I was thinking of something simpler where it just loops through all columns by default, no user interface or anything to select as I can see how that would be more work.

[ivanosevitch]

I was thinking of something simpler where it just loops through all columns by default

Some of the boards we use have a lot of cards and columns, so I think that's why we prefer selecting a few specific columns :)

[blooop]

Fair enough, I've only just got started with Trello so don't have that many yet.

[ivanosevitch]

Hi @blooop , a recent feature (#46) by @mpierret added a filter by labels.
Does that answer some of your use cases?

[blooop]

Yes, this looks useful for my case. Thanks for remembering!

However, I don't think the label selection is working properly in my browser (chrome). I can select the label filter dropdown and different cards appear depending on their label, but the dropdown box is empty, so I have no idea what label I am selecting.