Scheduling Work

Everything on this page writes straight through to Linear. The screen updates immediately and the change syncs in the background.

Creating issues

There are four ways in, and they all open the same dialog:

• Press C anywhere on the planner
• The ✚ floating button, bottom right — the same thing, for touch devices
• Right-click a grid cell → Create Issue — prefilled with that cell’s person and week
• Double-click a grid cell — the same, one gesture faster

The dialog takes a title, description, assignee, week, estimate and milestone, so new work starts in the right place rather than needing a second edit.

From an existing ticket

Right-click a ticket → Create:

• Issue — a new issue alongside it
• Sub-Issue — a child of this issue
• Dependent Issue — a new issue linked as dependent on this one

Moving work

Drag and drop

Drag a ticket to a different cell to change who is doing it, when, or both. Drop targets:

Drop on	Result
A grid cell	Assigned to that person, in that week
The Unassigned row	Keeps the week, clears the assignee
The Backlog area	Clears both, and returns the issue to a backlog state

Dragging near the left or right edge auto-scrolls through the weeks, faster the closer you get, so moving work two months out is one gesture.

Caution

Cells for someone who is unavailable that week do not accept drops. In a Custom View, dropping a ticket into a week before its own project starts is refused with an explanation — a project has no week 0.

What a move writes to Linear

1. The assignee changes.
2. The Week N label is replaced with the new week’s label.
3. If the issue was in a backlog state, it advances to your project’s first unstarted state. Work already in progress or done keeps its status.

Changing an issue

Right-click a ticket for the full menu.

Item	What it does
Create	Issue, Sub-Issue or Dependent Issue
State	Set the workflow state — your project’s real Linear states, current one checked
Reassign To	Pick another team member
Unassign	Clear the assignee, keep the week
Milestone	Set or clear the milestone, current one checked
Open in Linear	Open the issue in your tracker, in a new tab
Delete	Delete the issue, after confirming

Status, assignee and week can also be edited from the ticket detail panel, which stages your changes behind a Save button.

Note

The states in the menu are your workflow states — your own Todo, In Progress, In Review, Done and any custom ones — with colours and completion driven by each state’s type. Renaming a state in Linear changes what you read here, not how DubPlanner behaves.

Trying a plan before committing to it

If you are about to move twenty tickets to see whether a date is achievable, do it in a What-If scenario instead: the same gestures, but nothing reaches Linear until you apply it.

Related pages

• The planner grid
• The backlog
• Team availability
• Keyboard & mouse