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Say I have a top level case C1 that has a number of subcases on it (C2..Cn). I assign C1 to milestone M1, and all of C2..Cn to M1 also.

Time passes.....

We decide to move some of the subcases to a different milestone - they probably had their priorities reduced earlier, but now we know they will be addressed as a future phase M2. In FB I can change the milestone of the subcase to M2, but how does that affect what EBS predicts as the finish date of the parent case (that is still set to M1)?

Predicting a couple of responses:

Is the proper solution to create a C1-Phase1 and C1-Phase2 top level tasks, each on different milestones, and then assign the subcases? This seems a bit odd, as to move a case's milestone you need to remember to shift its parent too.

If EBS somehow gets broken by subcases on different milestones, should the UI even allow this to happen?

flag	asked Mar 18 2010 at 11:51 Greg Whitfield 257●6

I have been wondering the same sorts of things myself, it just never became enough of a curiosity to ask. Thanks! – cdeszaq Mar 18 2010 at 13:43

Brett Kiefer · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-18 13:29:28Z UTC

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For the sake of simplicity and flexibility, we took the approach that EBS would not pay any attention to parent and child case relationships. As far as EBS calculations are concerned, all estimates are independent of other cases in the hierarchy; the calculations for a milestone are done based on the cases in the milestone, just as though there were no parent/child relationships.

So it sounds like it should 'just work' in your scenario.

answered Mar 18 2010 at 13:29

Brett Kiefer♦♦
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Excellent - I like simplicity! I guess the only complication is in tidying up at the end of the first milestone, to decide whether the parent case was actually completed or not. – Greg Whitfield Mar 18 2010 at 13:34

Are there any plans to add in hard dependency support at the case level? I know this already exists at the milestone level, but we find that to be a bit too heavy-handed for our purposes. – cdeszaq Mar 18 2010 at 14:42

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Hard dependencies at the case level are not on the core FogBugz radar, but they may are possible with a plugin right now (though without EBS integration) and should be possible WITH EBS integration as we extend the plugin architecture. – Brett Kiefer♦ Mar 18 2010 at 15:34

What is the effect on EBS of subcases having differeng milestones?

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