Tasks 2.0
We’ve made some significant changes in our tasks module, thus the title “Tasks 2.0″. For this version we’ve attempted to focus on ease-of-use, usability and overall user experience. Here’s a printscreen of the new user interface.
Highlights of this implementation include the following:
- Task dashboard. Obtain an instant overview of all your task items across all workspaces in single glance. Predefined “tags” allow you to obtain an instant tally of all tasks, sorted by their particular status or due date. Clicking on any predefined tag will display the results in the target window.
- Filter your dashboard by Workspace. When you first load the tasks window you see all of the open tasks for all your workspaces. To get a refined statistical overview of a specific project just the specific Workspace (project) name.
- Current View. Always know which type of data you are viewing by this dynamic text.
- Visual Priority Indicators. High and low priority items are distinguished with blue and green arrows (respectively).
- Full Task Descriptions. The task descriptions are listed, along with the task change history. This make things more efficient so that you don’t need to click on the “details” window to view more task information.
Creating and Editing tasks
A few things have changed when creating and editing tasks. We’ve redesigned the window so that users can enter task information without having to scroll up or down. We’ve also added a nifty AJAX calendar picker that will allow users to enter due dates based on a monthly or yearly display. No more trying to determine the correct date format when managing your tasks.
As with our previous version, tasks can be assigned to one more people in your group. Once assigned, they can be notified via email of their new task by selecting the “Notify Tasks Assignees” option. Tasks can also be created from Articles Responses (reply’s to discussion groups). For those quick to-do items, tasks can also be created without an assignee.
So that’s our version of Tasks 2.0. With this new redesign we are hoping that this module becomes a very usable feature of the Joint Contact product. We hope you like the new implementation and encourage your feedback!
