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title: Customizing roadmap item dependency display
description: Improve the efficiency of identifying the relationships between your planning items by choosing how the dependencies are displayed on the roadmap view.
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Customizing roadmap item dependency display

Improve the efficiency of identifying the relationships between your planning items by choosing how the dependencies are displayed on the roadmap view.

The Personalize \(\[Omitted image "personalize-icon.png"\] Alt text: Personalize icon.\) side panel on the roadmap provides different toggles to personalize the display of dependencies on your roadmap.

-   For portfolio plan roadmaps, these toggles are always available.
-   For free-form roadmaps, these toggles are available only if the roadmap's source table is the Planning Item table \[sn\_align\_core\_planning\_item\] or one of its extensions.

\[Omitted image "dependencies-toggle.png"\] Alt text: Dependencies toggle on the roadmap.

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Dependencies Toggle

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Roadmap view

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**View dependencies**

 Indicates dependencies in the form of circles on either side of the planning item bars.

 These circles either contain a number inside them \(\[Omitted image "icon-dependency-circle.png"\] Alt text: Dependency circle.\), indicating the number of dependencies that item shares, or is colored red \(\[Omitted image "icon-dependency-error.png"\] Alt text: Dependency error icon.\) indicating a conflicting dependency.

 **Note:** This toggle must be enabled to use the other two toggles in the Dependencies section.

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\[Omitted image "dependency-circles.png"\] Alt text: Dependency circles on the roadmap.

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**Dependency lines**

 Indicates dependencies using lines between the planning items.

 These lines are shown only if:

-   Both planning items of the dependency are within the same roadmap
-   Dependency is of the **Depends on** type

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\[Omitted image "dependency-lines.png"\] Alt text: Dependency lines between the planning items.

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**Only items with dependencies**

 Filters the roadmap to show only those planning items that have that have at-least one **Depends on** type of relationship.

 The items shown here can depend on items on or out of the current roadmap.

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\[Omitted image "only-dependencies.png"\] Alt text: Roadmap showing only items with dependencies.

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