I’ve decided to add recurring tasks and task templates to Tasks Pro™ and Tasks 2.0 before I add reporting and printable views. There are several reasons I made this decision and I’ll touch on some of them briefly here.
- I think recurring tasks and task templates won’t take quite as long to build as the reporting functionality I have planned and I’d like to get one of these feature sets out as soon as I can.
- Very basic reporting can already be done using the existing advanced search capabilities and/or custom database queries.
- Adding recurring tasks and task templates is really enhancing existing functionality, not bringing new concepts into the software like reporting will.
- Because this is more of an incremental step, making this release 1.5 and adding reporting in a 2.0 release keeps the version #s consistent.
- I need to rewrite my internal list management code to make it more robust and flexible to support my plans for reporting and printable views.
- People will be able to use these features immediately and create data that they will then be able to report on in the future when reporting comes along.
- The poll I ran came up evenly split (as I expected), so I’m left with the above criteria to make my decision.
I know there are people eagery awaiting reporting that won’t be happy with this decision, but I think it is the right decision for the product. Comments are open.
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Patrick Taylor adds this Comment:
I’m evaluating TasksPro right now and it is amazing, it would be a steal at twice the price!
Incidentally if you’re still taking suggestions for future features, it would be great if TasksPro could import/read/subscribe to iCals in addition to publishing them.
I’ve got some techno-phobic clients trained on how to use iCal/Mozilla Calendar, so it would be great if I could get TasksPro to subscribe to their to-do calendars and have it autogenerate tasks for me based on what my clients have published.
I’m sure coming up with an elegant implementation would take a considerable amount of effort, but I think it would be a great feature to add to the others TasksPro has (perhaps version 2.5?).
May 18th, 2004 at 2:25 pm
Patrick Taylor adds this Comment:
sorry, WordPress stripped my paragraph tags, didn’t mean to dump a big monolithic block of text on you.
May 18th, 2004 at 2:27 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Importing VTODO items is on the ‘future’ list. Thanks for letting me know you’d use it.
For future reference, WordPress auto-generates P tags from double line breaks.
May 18th, 2004 at 2:30 pm
Patrick Taylor adds this Comment:
Thanks!!!
May 19th, 2004 at 5:17 am
Pankaj Ramani adds this Comment:
Alex,
I was just curious if reporting is still on the radar for TasksPro?
Thanks,
Pankaj
March 14th, 2005 at 10:56 am
Alex adds this Comment:
As far as I know.
March 14th, 2005 at 11:01 am
Janus adds this Comment:
We need printing functions asap.
Too bad it wasn’t there allready but hopefully it will be added very very soon.
May 31st, 2005 at 9:13 am
David adds this Comment:
Did Reporting make it into 2.5.2 and i’m not seeing it?? I just installed Tasks this morning and am looking for something that I can send out for my work-subset of my tasks, but can’t seem to find it…
Thanks,
David
July 21st, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
As noted above, the recent releases did *not* add reporting.
July 21st, 2005 at 1:15 pm
my_addict_mind adds this Comment:
I am using taskspro 1.7.1 from usetasks.com. i use recurring tasks heavily and i find that i cannot partially complete a recurring task because it closes all its related tasks. for example, if i create a daily recurring task for 30 days, when i mark the first recurring task, it closes everything. From the taskspro guide, i believe you can complete early recurring tasks without touching other tasks in that series.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:24 am