This feature would be great... no need to add more columns... At the moment a due / over due subtask is marked with orange dot... or red dot The parent task has a blue folder icon. Maybe the folder colour could change in accordance with the over due --subtask status... and show the summary of the subtask's info... like the dot colour / due date / priority etc. Thus when a parent task is collapsed the folder icon shows the status of the subtask within the substructure. the use then knows that there is a task that needs attention... the red or orange parent folder alerts the user to open or expand the folder... to see what needs to be competed. Thus the parent act as nothing more than a summary of its sub tasks. I know some people want parent task to be independant of the subtask... thus maybe this could be a choice in the preferences box... like... "Do you want the parent task to inherit the subtasks behaviour or status?" thus the user could make this choice. Thank you for your attention.

Hi, Finally calendar view.... Yes!!! In my mind it 95% perfect.
So what is the remaining 5%... The filter: Start & Due Date / Start date / Due Date.... and how they are graphically displayed.

1- Start & Due Date: should display the task, like a "project management" gantt chart view. Thus graphically stretching the task from the start date across all the other days to the Due or completion date ... as it seems to do. (great!)

2- Start date or the Due Date filters should only show the task in its start date or due date days! Not stretch it across all the other days.
Why? = Daily planning.
Question: How many tasks am I doing on that day?... is more important than, How many task pass though that day... for this I change the filter back to nº1 above... ?yes? Thus the display could visually be less cluttered & faster

3- Also when the mouse pointer hovers over the task a little help note pops up... could it also say to which parent / sub parent tasks it belongs? (simple task like "draw plans" could apply to any number of tasks or projects in you task tree, particularly if the task is from the task template.)

4- if you could ? ... in Start date or Due Date filtered view, the task could show a volumetric display of budgeted hours you had planned for that task. (I realise that in tasks that take more than on day they would completely occupy the day .... but that is exactly what you need to know.

5- Or Parent tasks could graphically span days as lines and the tasks could be placed in their days?

Anyway... Thank you very much for this feature!!
Sergio

Hi calendar would be great, (don't find the tile or timeline useful at all- consider this alternative....) ... don't you find that you are planning to do things on a particular days and you estimate how long each task will take.... before you know, you could have more tasks on a particular day than hours ... set in taskcoach's preferences ... So could the graphics work on the principal of an "empty glass... not literally)" , (the glass representing a day with the amount of hours you have allocated in preferences)... as you allocate tasks to a day the glass fills showing how many hours (or % day) are taken up or left (like a bar graph)... in a week / month view ...you can visually see which days have less tasks or more than possible... allocated ... thus visually seeing the volume taken up for each day... clicking on the task and re-allocating it to an empty day :-) being too difficult?? hope not!