Need ability to copy all of the project's milestones, task lists, and tasks between projects
Hello Zoho denizens,
I'd like to add an enthusiastic vote for the following feature:
Ability to clone/copy entire project schedule: milestones, tasks lists, and tasks between projects.
Use case:
Project manager has setup a template project that includes all of the necessary milestones and tasks. Every new project will be a variation of a standard project template. Project manager should be able to clone a standard template into a new project to save time and effort.
The current template feature solves this problem only partially because it only works on Task Lists. That means that to template a complex project a user is forced to create a couple of dozen templates and then to include them one by one. It would be much better if a template could include an entire project's schedule.
For future phases it would be great to also include task dependencies in the template, but that is dependent on changing dependency mechanism from dates to effort in order to allow automatic project plan schedule adjustment from the starting date, which is another issue in need of urgent fixing.
All,
if you think that you could use this feature please add you request to this post to make sure that this feature gets the attention it deserves.
Thanks.
-Bear