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« on: August 20, 2010, 07:19:31 am »
Well, it seems I no longer have this requirement. I've found some good workarounds.
This is my generic "Use Case"
1) Avoid overwhelm:
- group tasks so that you focus on a small sub section of your project
- see just the heading for a groups of tasks, not a list which contains every task in your entire project
2) Automate repeated projects. Avoid having to manually re-create tasks for all identical projects, including the task assigments.
I'm now able to do all the above.
To Group Tasks and See Just Group Headings, not a detailed list
Use Parent/Child tasks. This works quite awesomely. The reason it's awesome is that there's a tree control in the interface which hides all sub tasks (until you click to open).
That replaces my need to use a Workspace for task grouping and it's far more elegant.
To Automate Creation Of Identical Projects, Using Templates
You only have to save the parent tasks as templates and all the children will be recreated automatically.
To save parent tasks as templates:
- click on the task name (NOT the Edit icon) which takes you into the edit screen.
- In that screen click More... (on the right) and choose Add to Template.
This takes you to the template screen.
- In that screen enter the name of a new template and click Add template
To recreate tasks from a template: In the task tab, Click New. Mouse down to "All" and click your template name. That's it.
Make a template with multiple task groups
You can go further and add multiple Parent tasks to a template. To do that pick a new parent task, follow the steps above for creating a template but don't enter a new template name; instead click on an existing template name. That's it!
Task assignments are saved/recreated in templates.
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For now I prefer parent/child tasks to creating new workspaces for sub projects with a small number of tasks.
I prefer parent tasks to milestones (The quick edit feature for editing tasks without leaving the list view is SO much quicker to work with. And sometimes also, I have trouble seeing the milestones I've just created.)
I'm happy that I can template these task groups including the task assigments.