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Awesome develope of this software!
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Sorry for my poor english. Please consider adding these 3 new features:
1) Attached files area & preview (something like you can see in Outlook).
This is very good, because, often you have a task linked with more than one file, it’s useful because you can add folders, mails, etc. And... if it were possible ... would be nice if when you click on an attachment, you can see a "preview" of the file (as in "Outlook").
2) List of tasks next due area (or secondary filtered task list)
This is great: it’s a filtered list that only shows the task with the due date. And you can order these tasks by next due, showing how many days are left until they expire: 1 day, 3 days, 7, 13, etc.
I know that "To do list" has the option to filter tasks list by the due date. But my suggestion aims to have always in sight the tasks that are coming due (is VERY useful).
Having to "filter" each time to see tasks that are due soon loses usefulness.
I hope you can see the convenience of having (always visible) this kind of "secondary task list" (so that you have: a main "unfiltered" task list and, below, another "filtered").
Obviously, this “secondary list”, can be used according to the interest of each user . You can filter this list with other filtering criteria.
3) Time remaining: show exact number of days
I noticed that the "days remaining" a task with a due date are shown in the following format: "2w3d", "3m1d", etc.
It would be great if I could see exact numbers of days left instead of this. (13 days 47 days, 128 days, etc).
At least for me, this way "2w3d" is not practical or easy.
Armando
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Arpas wrote: I noticed that the "days remaining" a task with a due date are shown in the following format: "2w3d", "3m1d", etc.
It would be great if I could see exact numbers of days left instead of this. (13 days 47 days, 128 days, etc).
I can probably fix this easily because there is already a preference to Display 'Estimated/Spent' times in HMS format. So if this is _not_ set I'll display the time remaining in days, hours or minutes depending on what is most appropriate, else I'll leave it as it is.
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Hello
1)
I agree on the "more than one link" it is sometime very handy to avoid putting it in the comment section.
For he previz I find it too much, todolist is not Outlook, soon you would ask to have a Send To feature... 
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I use the 'list view' with the option of hiding parent tasks then I sort through due date.
The column order is independent from 'Task tree' so you can always see coming tasks.
However the filter is common so if you hide some tasks in one list, they are also hidden there (completed tasks for example)
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dealing with working days can also be interesting there: if something is due on monday at work and you are friday, time left is one day, not 3. (Time period is not taken into account there)
Loic
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Using 6.6.7 - not able to see Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Task Colour...
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Have a look at the preferences > fonts and colours.
Is "colour task titles by assigned colours" enabled?
Jochen
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nope.
I have fiddled with all settings under this menu but don't see - Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Color
Warm Regards,
Manoj
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Can you send me your preferences file (.ini) pls?
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sent... Same subject line.
Warm Regards,
Manoj
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Thx Manoj.
You only see the 'Set Task Color' menu item if you have 'Preferences > User Interface > Fonts and Colours > Colour task titles by assigned colours' enabled.
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.dan.g. wrote: You only see the 'Set Task Color' menu item if you have 'Preferences > User Interface > Fonts and Colours > Colour task titles by assigned colours' enabled.
Sorry, I should have explained it to Manoj as detailed as you did.
Jochen
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I recently had a request for making tasks readonly[^], which would appear to be a fairly simple job (6.8).
And it's prompted in me another related idea: Task Ownership.
I haven't really thought it through yet, but if a task was 'owned' by someone then only they could edit it.
Effectively it would be read-only to everyone but the owner.
Let me know if this would be of interest to you.
ps. This would not be a mechanism to allow you to only check-out specific tasks, it would just be a way of controlling access to tasks.
modified yesterday.
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Interesting. Are you thinking this would be driven by the "Allocated to" attribute?
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zajchapp wrote: Are you thinking this would be driven by the "Allocated to" attribute?
Possibly, though we would then need a means of associating a given user with a alloc-to name, which could correspond to the 'Created by' name in the preferences.
My initial thought however was to use the user's Windows ID since that is less easily changed. After all, there's not much point having ownership if people can easily spoof each other's identities.
Note: the read-only flag would have no such control and anyone could change this if they wanted to.
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Hi Dan,
"read-only to everyone but the owner" is a good option to make sure that nobody can mess up your tasks or comments.
Suggestion:
One step further. It would be great if the owner could define one or two persons that are allowed to make changes, e.g. during his absence. Makes sense if we are looking at a shared tasklist and the owner is e.g. on holiday.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Jochen
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TCP_JM wrote: It would be great if the owner could define one or two persons that are allowed to make changes, e.g. during his absence. Makes sense if we are looking at a shared tasklist and the owner is e.g. on holiday.
Indeed, I fully expect this to get more complicated.
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.dan.g. wrote: I fully expect this to get more complicated.
Jochen
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Pardon if I am being a bit thick but...
Is the 'owner' then initially the 'creator', and will 'owner' be a further attribute (only editable by the owner)? Or how will the task be associated with a person?
So are you also saying that anyone one would be able to go into the tasklist, but any tasks not owned by them would be 'read only'. They could however switch this 'read only' status off? An individual task, or all tasks.
The read only tasks would also need to be visually distinct from editable ones.
Having said all that, I think it would be a useful option for shared tasklists.
zajchapp
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zajchapp wrote: Is the 'owner' then initially the 'creator', and will 'owner' be a further attribute (only editable by the owner)? Or how will the task be associated with a person?
My initial thoughts are:
1. 'Ownership' as a concept must be enabled on a tasklist, and it is off by default.
2. Enabling ownership on a tasklist makes the enabler the overall owner.
3. Only the owner may disable ownership.
4. All tasks are owned by the overall owner and the task's creator.
5. When an owner allocates the task it then also becomes owned by that person.
zajchapp wrote: They could however switch this 'read only' status off? An individual task, or all tasks.
No. This is where 'Read-only' as a concept is distinct from 'Ownership'. Only an owner can change the ownership of a task, but anyone can enable and disable the read-only status, which is really just a simple way to prevent accidental changes.
zajchapp wrote: The read only tasks would also need to be visually distinct from editable ones.
Agreed.
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Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like a plan.
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