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Dan,
I think adding wordwap to custom text columns would open up a lot of new uses for TDL.
I use to use Microsoft Access to develop custom databases, but it is so much easier to create a simple database with TDL.
However, when I add custom text columns to a simple database that I want create with TDL, the text columns can get too wide without wordwrap. This limits considerably what I can do with custom text field types of ToDoLists.
Have you given any thought to adding wordwrap to custom text columns? Would that be difficult to implement? Would you consider this feature for a future release?
Thanks,
Dave Thompson
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Hi All,
I'm proposing a significant upgrade to the Calendar plugin in 6.8.
The most significant change will be to render the space between start and due dates as a continuous coloured bar, like in Outlook, with the facility to drag either the whole bar or either of its ends to changes its dates.
This facility will also be implemented similarly in the Gantt chart.
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An amazing tool! Often thought of making one for myself, but was too lazy to complete it. Thank you for giving a ready made one!
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Hi Dan,
Would it be possible to add an option in Listview to not show Referenced tasks. Otherwise you are essentially seeing the same task twice. I would also be happy with never showing them in this view...
Very useful in the other views mind you.
zajchapp
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Hi Dan,
Currently, among all right-click menu items the closest to the pointer is the most useless one. I think it would be more convenient to have New Task item and New Subtask item at the bottom, replacing Cancel item. Would you consider removing Cancel from the right-click menu as unnecessary? Alternatively, it's possible to leave New Task/Subtask items at the top, provided the mouse pointer does not stay at the bottom upon right-clicking. One option is to position it over New Tasks item. I am not sure which is the easiest, but as of now the task of adding a new item via the right-click menu can be simplified.
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Dan,
when I create a custom attribute, type 'Number (fractional)', I have noticed that :
* If I populate '5' in the field, why the value is not transformed to '5,00' like for 'Cost' field for example ?
Kind regards
modified 3 days ago.
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Hello Dan,
I have a remark about the Gantt.
each line of the gantt has an alternate color even if I uncheck the option 'alternante color'
Currently the Gantt is not very readable between the color of bars, the color of line and the color of week-ends...
In my opinion, even if there is alternate color for tasks, the gantt visualisation part should be without any alternate color. Or it should be an option...
Kind regards
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While I use Freeplane, I have also tried this with Freemind. The results are the same.
The values of the attributes are incorrect. For example I have checked Creation Date to be among the exported attributes. Yet when I open the mm file in either Freeplane or Freemind, the attribute does not appear. I have also tried exporting all attributes with the same result. All of the attributes are not exported and appear to be excluded even if they contain values. Allocated By has a value and is exported without a value as TaskAllocatedBy. However Allocated To also has a value yet does not show up in the export at all.
Furthermore, names of attributes appears to be inconsistent. I know about the display names, but the names in the task list differ from those in the selection of attributes listed in export (understandable because of the use of display names), but these also differ from the names that are exported.
Thank you.
Jon
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As written above: How to define total-sum (cumulation) of user-defined attributes?
Pierre
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Get it Here.
What's Changed
- Fixed custom filter bug in 'Show' droplist in filter dialog
- Fixed custom filter not working in Gantt
- Fixed 'big' icon on windows 8 taskbar
- Fixed sorting on custom attributes
- Fixed translation bugs
- Changed 'Gantt Item' header to 'Task'
- Fixed dropdown width of filter combo
- Fixed AltGr bug by changing shortcuts for copy/paste of rich-text formatting
- Added logging support for intermediate tasklists
- Fixed date/time corruption when saving tasklist
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The shortcuts for copying and pasting formatting in the rich-text comments field are: Ctrl+Alt+C and Ctrl+Alt+V.
Unfortunately these interfere with use of the AltGr key to provide accented characters in many languages such as Polish.
As a result I propose to change these shortcuts in 6.8, but the natural choice of Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V is complicated because the latter is already in use for Paste Simple (No formatting).
Any suggestions welcome.
[update]
I decided that the best solution was to remove the shortcut for Paste Simple and use Ctrl+Shift+C/V for the rich text formatting. DR6.
[/update]
modified 4 days ago.
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maybe this feature already exists, but I want to set a task to "read-only"? Already possible? Option for next release?
Pierre
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And when I say 'capable' I mean CAPABLE, because I want someone to create a simple database able to store a TDL tasklist in table form.
And the only real requirement at this stage is that it must be able to store hierarchies of tasks (I guess that each task would have to be keyed back to its parent).
I want the database so that I can start to get an idea of how much work would be involved in writing a storage plugin for SQL with or without ODBC.
ps. I might start with this while I wait for your efforts to flood in! 
modified 5 days ago.
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Your ToDoList is excellent. I've been using it for years. Thank you.
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Just found out about ToDoList 6.6.7. This is a very useful and well conceived program. I am confused about using gantt charts. If I click on the gantt tab, the message says that the gantt plug-in is coming soon. I see that other plug-ins are functional. They seem to have corresponding dll files in the program folder as does gantt. Why do they work but not gantt?
Jon
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Hi Dan,
I've noticed that clicking the middle mouse button on a tab will close the tab. Would you consider putting in a feature that when clicking on the middle mouse button in the task list area will show the scroll icon (like in Firefox) and allow for fast scrolling when moving the mouse?
Regards,
Mike
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I realized an sorting issue in 6.6.5. If you cut an task out of an folder and paste it in the tasklist it will be placed at top of the list. If you filter after category it will be (in my case) placed (drop) about 20 tasks below. If you now push the task up again using CTRL + Arrow up it will drop again after refiltering.
But the task will stay at top if you place it there using the mouse!
I use sorting after priority. The task has priority 9 and get´s placed at top or in the middle of other tasks with priority 9.
Thank You
Alexandra
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Wie soll man "Sibling" übersetzen? Alles mit "Geschwister" ist irgendwie seltsam; soll man "Nebenaufgaben" nehmen?
Andere Vorschläge?
Pierre
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Dan,
When I add a new task and set the start date and due date, a black bar appears on the GANTT that is on the correct date. However, when I set a start time and end time, the GANTT changes the start and due dates.
E.g. Make a task and set the start and end dates to some future date - in my case 21 March 2014. Check the GANTT - it displays the correct start and end date and a black bar. Then return to the task, and set a start and end time - 19:00 and 22:00. Return to the GANTT - the start and end dates are now 22 and 24 March 2014.
Same on the Calendar. The fields have the right information, just the display is wrong.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Get it Here.
What's Changed
- Gantt Chart
- Fixed various translation issues
- Fixed ClearType related redraw issue
- Fixed filtering
- Restored normal task color for selected items
- Fixed date sorting in listview
- Fixed tray icon issues
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Hi
is it possible to remove unneeded/obsolete entries from the Tags-ComboBox?
Best regards
Michael
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Since the time spent on a task can be recorded by "Time spent",
I think to record the start time and the end time also can be done.
Hope to get this function,
so that ToDoList can be used as a task-based whole-day-dairy tool.
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I just wonder could it be used as a pomodoro tool.
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Get it Here.
What's New
- Handled completed task strikethru in Gantt
- Improved time to expand all tasks
- Made import dialog resizable
- Added more Gantt parent coloring options
- Better handling of preferences under UAC
- Improved list-view task selection after filtering removes a task
- Restore preference for controlling auto-sorting
- Added more progress updates for extension views
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Yes i will try.
1. When i enter a word in the search box on the top menu bar, it highlights the taskbar where that word
is located in blue.
2. If that same word that i used in the search box is in the comments section, the word is not
highlighted
3. I think that it would be very useful if when you search for a word or phrase, it is highlighted in
all locations.
4. Lets say that the word is "Dan" short for Dan is the Man and i have this word in the taskbar as Dans
List. I also have the word Dan is the man and Dan knows what he is talking about in the Comments
section. When i do a search it should find and highlight all three Dan's in yellow.
P.S. I will send you a sample.
Thanks ..... Tamroy 
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When I search for a word it highlights the task heading where the word is but it doesn't highligh the word if it is in the comments section. A very uuseful feature would be if all of the search words was highlighted no matter what section they were in.
When you log on to Code Project ToDoList page it highlights any new item in yellow. This would really work well if all of the search words were highlighted in yellow.
Thanks.... Tamroy
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Hi,
I have seen in another task manager a nice feature. If you have a task that will not be active before a specific date, you have an option to hide it until a set date, when it is ready to be executed.
Very useful when you have big project but you want to focus just on the next tasks.
Mario
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Problem
Completed tasks are displayed [instead of hidden] when options D–L are chosen from the 'Show' tasks drop-down list.
To reproduce
- Open a tasklist containing completed tasks
- In the 'Show' drop-down menu, choose any option between D [Tasks Due by Today] and L [Tasks Due within the Next 7 Days]
- The completed tasks will be shown, instead of being hidden [as it was up to 6.6.5]
Notes
Both 6.6.6 and 6.6.7 demonstrate the same bug. 6.6.5 and earlier versions do not.
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This has come up before, ages ago. I am wondering about the behaviour of TDL when completing tasks in List view.
I have a filtered and sorted list of tasks in List view. I am going through this longish list, adjusting attributes and completing items. I change:
- % complete, name etc - the fields update - no issue
- Custom flag (a sorting item) - no immediate re-sorting - no issue
- Due date (a sorting item) - the task moves - not ideal, but OK
- Completed (tick) - the task disappears. Sometimes focus is lost, sometimes focus is given to another task miles away from where I was working - annoying.
My question: Would it make sense for no re-sorting action to take place until you select another task? In other words, you do all your editing on task A, select Task B, at which point Task A moves to wherever it needs to go. This would allow an orderly progression through the list, without unnecessary scrolling IMHO.
Would this break other ways of working?
zajchapp
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When printing a report from a stylesheet in 6.7 (e.g. Z_DetailedReport.xsl), it seems the 'assigned to' no longer appears in the report. Priority, % done, name, start and due dates seem fine.
Printing the same file, using the same stylesheet from 6.6.3 works as expected.
zajchapp
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Entering file:///c:\sandbox\something.txt works when entered in the comments pane of a task.
However entering file:///c:\documents and settings\users\sandbox\somethingelse.txt does not work.
It breaks at the first space encounted in the path or filename.
Have not found any way to fix this, even with quotes at various places.
For now, I have been using the DOS short filename, which is not every descriptive.
Any ideas somebody?
Thanks for a very useful piece of software.
Frogcoder5
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I started to refresh the translation, especially for Gantt-plugin; some quick remarks:
All displayed dates are moved to the translation-section:
"April 2012 (Days)" "" "sysheader32"
"April 2012 (Weeks)" "" "sysheader32"
"April 2012" "" "sysheader32"
The combination of Date and description (see also above) can not be translated:
"Months, long \t(eg. January 2013)" "" "combobox.1015"
"Months, mid \t(eg. Jan 2013)" "" "combobox.1015"
All display-modes using brackets and "eg" are translated, but still displayed in English:
"Quarters, long \t(eg. January-March 2013)"
"Weeks" and "Days" should better use "small/mid/wide" (or large?) instead of "short/mid/long".
Please increase the area for the word "Display" and for the buttons "Got to Today" and "Settings"
Pierre
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Does the solution support SQL persistence instead of XML?
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Hi, Dan!
Sometimes, when importing tasks in outline (.txt) format from windows clipboard, tasks appear to be long or excessive and need editing prior to import. Is it feasible to make the Import tasks window draggable so you can view complete tasks?
Offtopic
Recently I started to use this function a lot, it really helps me out especially when I make a quick list-to-do out of some email or correspondence, so it's like rapid task entry in MLO or other apps. Funny enough, the more I work with TDL, the more hidden features I discover)
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I mean: could I see the task's eclipsed time when it is started?
For example, task A begins eclipse at 2013-5-5 13:42:21， could I find any record of this time in the tool?
I know there is the column "start" there, but this column is not what I am looking for.
Column "start" is the time the task build up, rather than the time the task is excuted.
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Unsure if this has been suggested before.
There are now 4 tab views Dan has implemented for a tasklist from the original 2, and a bunch more he could implement in future. Are we getting to a point where it might be useful for the user to be able to select the tab views they want to use / show for any tasklist?
My thinking is this. I use tasklists for several jobs, and don't use all the available tabs. Some simple examples:
- My main plans uses Treeview, Listview, and Ganttview.
- Minor tasklists use Treeview and Listview
- When using TDL to take structured notes, I only use Treeview
So I would find it nice if TDL shows all 4 view tabs when creating a new tasklist, but then have the ability to hide those that aren't required for that tasklist. And the ability to show them again, should the situation change.
zajchapp
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If I create a HTML with "export" (e.g. "my report.html") then I want to display it as text in the report too.
Is there a simple way?
(I thought I can make it with creating a Javascript which displays the name, but I failed with German Umlaute ä, ü, ö ....)
http://befused.com/javascript/get-filename-url[^]
Maybe it is easier in XSL?
Pierre
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There seems to be a problem loading a tasklist with 10000+ tasks in TDL 6.7.DR3 but not 6.6.7. In 6.7.DR3 the release build never completes for me.
I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm either of these results using this zipped tasklist.
[update]
The problem was caused by trying to restore the expanded state of the tree, which for me had 2500+ expanded items.
I'm not sure how to deal with this, except by limiting the number of expanded items that can be restored. I welcome any suggestions.
[/update]
modified 4 May '13 - 4:26.
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Hi Dan
6.6.6. seems out a while now and I haven't seen the skies come down on us nor the underworld taking over.
Could it be it hasn't been released for automatic update?
If so, is this intentional?
Thanks!
Patrick
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Help! Please.
I shutdown ToDoList and my Computer last night normally. When I started the computer this morning and tryed to load TODOList it loaded with just a simple task line and was called Untitled. Went to my main ToDOList directory location and tried to load my ToDoList.tdl, I received this message.
ToDoList 6.6 Beta Release 1
Open Tasklist
'E:\Data\Personal ... ToDo.tdl' could not be opened because it contains malformed XML that the MSXML component could not interpret.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks ... Tamroy
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I searched the forum for "template" and got different threads, but no real solution. So I want to post a new(?) idea, maybe it can be implemented.
"Create a function that inserts a new task by ID"
In detail (simple version):
- the user defines some tasks which he uses as templates
- the users looks at the IDs and remembers them (or write it to a post-it...)
- Then he presses the new button "Create a new task by using ID: ...."
- After ENTER the software searches the ID and makes copy and paste.
That's all (for simple version).
the extended version could contain:
- an attribute that defines a task as template
- a dialogue where the defined templates are displayed and can be selected
- an option to select "Include sub-tasks or not".
- a way to use tasks from other TDL-files too
- ...
Pierre
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Get it Here.
What's Changed- Gantt Chart
- Fix 'Alloc To' display
- Implement preferences
- Allow item selection by clicking in any column
- handle selection change when expanding/collapsing Gantt items
- Fix 'New Task' keyboard shortcuts when editing a task name
- Remove task references from clipboard before pasting to different tasklist
- Fix crash when pasting to comments
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I'm a new user, and I was testing the ability to cut paste Rich Text into the Comments field.
The thing is, when I created my first Tasklist file I did it in Unicode. This seemed to work OK until I closed and re-opened the program. At that point I got the error where it says my file "contains malformed XML that the MSXML component could not interpret".
I was able to go back and find the last backup before I added the Rich Text. I then saved in non-Unicode and things were fine after that.
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In TDL Release 6.7.DR2, when I copy from some outside source then navigate to my desired task and immediately right click over the comments field with the intent of pasting the copied text, TDL bombs on me.
Jerry
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As someone else has recently pointed out[^], using TDL has the side-effect of recording performance data in the form of 'time est' vs 'time spent', and 'due date' vs 'completion date'.
I'm interested in ideas for how to use this to help users improve their predictions.
Imagine a new menu command 'Tools > Metrics', what could it offer?
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The Business Case
TodoList is an excellent tool for managing Projects of a variety of sizes because it makes it easy to break down a project into its components and keep breaking them down until there is a good list of manageable pieces to work on. Because of the percentages at the various levels it allows you to get a pretty idea of how far along you are in completing your project.
The problems is that by looking at the percentages and the number of tasks remaining it is hard to get a real idea of how much longer it is going to take you to complete the remainder of the outstanding items.
Scrum and other AGILE methods use the concept of a Burndown Chart. A chart that shows you visibly how fast you are burning through the existing task list. By looking at this chart you can get a good idea of how much progress you are making against the existing backlog of tasks and how fast. If tasks are being added (scope increase) or if existing tasks are more complex (further breakdown) or if task estimates go up, then the Burndown chart will clearly show this by levelling out or even going up. If real progress is being made then the chart will flow down. As you look at the trajectory of the chart over time it will become very clear when (if ever) you can realistically expect to be finished.
This chart is great to show to a client/customer because it is easy to understand and it is great leverage when you need to talk to them about limiting the scope of the current phase of a project and moving certain functionality to another phase to make the initial deadline.
Simple Chart
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ymgx6vb20qb8e8/Burndown.png[^]
Calculations
The X axis of the chart would be time. With the first date being the creation of the first task that matches the filter and the last date being either today or the completion of the last task that matches the filter. Optionally the user could specify a deadline date for use as the final date.
The chart would plot two lines.
The first line would be the number of incomplete tasks over time. This number is absolute and should not be affected by any indication of completeness. I would optionally limit this to child tasks only. (See options) I am pretty sure this data already exists in ToDoList because you know when a task was completed and you know when it was started.
The second line would be the estimated number of hours that are still outstanding. If the person has added an estimate(hours) then use that value if there is no value then use the configured default. Allow a configured default of Null. If there is no estimate and no default then the task won't be included in the remaining effort chart line. The remaining effort for each task should take into account the percentages complete if specified.
Include a note on the chart indicating the number of tasks without an estimate and show the default estimate value (if specified). This helps make it clear how it is calculated.
You could either have to two charts, one above the other on a single tab or you could superimpose the one chart on the other. I think having them on the same chart is best.
I have linked in a spreadsheet to show how they might be superimposed on each other and still visible.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/12iurw1ike72s1m/Burndown.xlsx[^]
Have the filter affect the Burndown chart.
Burndown Chart Options
• Child Tasks Only (bool)
Allow for the excluding parent tasks when counting the number of remaining tasks.
• Default Hours Estimate (float value)
Use this value for any tasks that don't have the estimate hours populated. This is handy for those people who generally try an break out tasks into a specific block size. This allows them to only put estimates on especially small or large tasks.
Allow a value of Null which means that the tasks without an estimate won't have a weight.
Summary
The key benefit of this chart is that it will allow a TodoList user to get a real picture of how fast they are progressing through their task list and when they might realistically expect to be finished.
This would also make ToDoList suddenly very attractive to anyone that likes/uses the whole SCRUM methodology.
Other ideas from Wikipedia
Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_down_chart[^]
Fancy Chart:
Much more complex example from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SampleBurndownChart.png[^]
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Is there any special setting ? Also,VC2008 complaints.
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Enjoy the freedom to write a software to suit myself need!
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I love this project. It is what I need. I have also the same dream to write a software to use. If I need something, implement it myself. Enjoy such freedom! I also notice that the project is updated frequenctly. I admire this author. I am doing the same thing to write an useful software!
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Hello
I have a big tasklist (1,25Мb) and I try to open and use it on Windows 8 x64. Unfortunately I found the folowing bugs (they a not exists in small tasklist)
1) Freezing when opening a file and after autosave (sometimes)
2) Freezing after I select "Show: Incomplete Tasks" (always)
Best Regards.
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