I’ve pretty much wrapped up feature development for Tasks Pro™ 1.1 and Tasks 2.0. Both are in beta right now and I haven’t heard too much in terms of bug reports from the testers (I’ve fixed a couple of small ones already).
I’m looking forward to what features I should add next. Going through my list (a combination of my ideas and requests I’ve gotten from people) I’ve broken it down to two groups of big features that I’ll be adding. The question now is which I should do first?
- Reporting, Printable Views, Status Reports and Audit History for Tasks (maybe). This is going to be really useful for managers and I think the status reports have a chance to be really great as well. My goal is to build a system that is so useful it really gets used and therefor has real useful data in it that can be culled into reports and such.
- Recurring Tasks, Scheduled Tasks (adding the ability to set a time a task needs to be done), Template Tasks (create a task tree from a pre-defined template) and Dependancies. These are more ‘task related’ features, things that people wish they could do with their tasks.
What do you think? I’ve created a poll in the Tasks Pro Yahoo Group.
Vote Here (and view the current tally)
Feel free to post to the Yahoo Group or in the comments here making an argument for the option you prefer.
Again, I’m going to be doing both eventually – one set will probably be Tasks Pro™ 1.5 and the other will probably be Tasks Pro™ 2.0 (and released in Tasks as well).
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I was just thinking this weekend about Recurring Tasks. 😀
They’ll definitely be handy, it looks like the reporting features have an early lead though.
A useful first step for reporting might be to add a print media stylesheet. I imagine you have more complete reports in mind, but a print stylesheet that hid the left-hand tab, the control buttons, and other non-essential items on the page would be pretty straightforward.
There is a lot more needed for a good printable view because of all the DHTML stuff going on.
Why Templates/Recurring Tasks Before Reporting
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 recurri…
Please make the recurring tasks option !
Email Confirmations:
Currently, when a task is generated, an email goes out only to the Owner of the task. For follow up purposes, it would be nice to add the option of generating the same email for each of the members in a group part of the task and a confimation message for the person who created the task
You may want to add this option in the user preferences, if they want the confirmation or not. And for the groups verify that the email does not repeat to users present in several groups in case several groups are part of the task.
the idea is to make sure everyone involved is informed, if for XYZ reason the user is not logged on or has not refreshed the Home Screen
(another idea, place a selectable pulldown menu to refresh the home page every 30sec, 1min, 5 min, 10min, etc. with a meta tag)
We just started using the software yesterday and is already showing results…keep the GREAT work.
TASK PRO 1.1.2