associate tasks with other tasks

I love the feature, where you can associate documents to a task.

this saves us from having to upload files again in to a task.

instead, we are able to just associate a document that has already been uploaded to a project, which saves us time and storage.

being able to do this is important to our employees out in the field. they open a task, and see a file that is relevant to what they are doing at the moment.

I think it would be tremendously helpful if we could do the same thing with tasks.

allow us to associate other tasks to the current task so that they can reference them, and check them off if needed.

this is different than sub tasks. with sub tasks, once they mark the main task complete, all the sub tasks also get marked complete. we don't want this to happen. instead, we want them to be able to see the associated tasks and mark them as completed only if it makes sense to do so at that moment.

if they close the main task, nothing happens to the associated tasks. they still exist as they were before, untouched, unless the employee specifically chooses it and marks it complete.

I cant stress enough how much this would improve our efficiency. if this isnt hard to implement, please consider doing so.

thank you!

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