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  1. Embeded Command capability

    With release 1.3.35 I am successfully using TaskCoach in a large and ongoing project where I must periodically send an email by right-clicking on a sub-task. Once Thunderbird opens I manually fill in necessary email addresses - usually several and different per sub-task.

    My suggestion is to add tokens in the description field or, better yet, a new tab for email addresses on a per task/subtask basis.

    For example, potential syntax that mimics mailto syntax might be:

    [mailto:to=anony1@gmail.com]
    [mailto:to=anony2@yahoo.com]
    [mailto:cc=anony3@yahoo.com]

    Before invoking the email client, Taskcoach would scan the description field or the new…

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  2. Create a Calendar view... if there is a calendar view how do you view it?

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  3. Introduction of Sidebar for Quickinfo on "Elapsed Time", "Budget" etc

    Hello Task Coach Team,

    at first, I have to mention that I am quite happy to found your neat software on the internet.
    What I am missing is a kind of quickinfo at a sidebar (for example) to get access to the major task info, when I have highlighted a task. Everytime when I want to check the elapsed project time and budget I have to double click on the task and click another time on the related tab. It would be much easier with a kind of quickinfobar.

    Many thanks for your programming work!

    Best regards,
    Rainer

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  4. When you attach a document, if the name contain spaces, import the spaces and not the code "%20" in the subject field.

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  5. Add an option to default new tasks as active without having to add a planned start date.

    I frequently add tasks that I consider active tasks, but I don't have a planned start date for them or I may not want to have a planned start date. I would like to have an option to default new tasks as active (rather than inactive) without having to add a planned start date.

    I am aware that this currently can be done by choosing the preset option for the default planned start date, but I don't want to set a planned start date.

    Please let me know if this is something you would consider adding to this awesome software.

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  6. Be able to see the % of completion in main view

    It is great if I could add the % of completion to the main view panel to monitor th % of completion

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  7. Be able to add effort time in main panel

    When we trace the effort the effort time can only is visible by going to the task edit. It was great if I could add it to the main panel to be able to see the time used for specific task

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    This is possible already, simply go to view > New Viewer > Effort to add a panel for effort view, the panel can then be dropped into place wherever you like in the main view. I put mine below the task viewer

  8. show task details when hovering mouse over them

    When a task has a long description, it would be nice to show the entire description in a tooltip. I use Task Coach on a relativel small sreen (netbook), and this happens quite a lot. Clicking and entering takes more time. I'm not sure if this request is only for the "subject" or also (parts of) the "description" (if available). The same requests applies to the calendar view, where tasks lasting only a short period of time (think a short meeting in the "month" view) are not legible.

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  9. Add a column "Last updated time" in Tasks View

    I have a lot of tasks and subtasks in my Tasks View, and it becomes hard to find those I want to update when I work on them. It would be very convenient for me if I could sort them by "Last update time". If you add this column and I can sort against this parameter, the tasks I was recently working on should be on top of the tree, allowing a quicker access.

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  10. Set time away to another task

    When i go back to my computer, i want the possibility to add the time i was away to another task, than continue this task or continue what i was working on

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    This is already possible. All you need to do is stop a task when you leave, and then when you come back, choose the task and make a new effort in the effort viewer or in the effort tab of the task editor, or just press ctrl-E. In the effort editor that comes up, press “start tracking from last stop time”

    Cheers

  11. View Tasks as weekplan.

    Hello,
    can you view tasks as a week plan?
    It would be great to view projects or tasks into a daily working period.
    e.g. Monday: 8:00 to 18:00 and then drag drop tasks inte a weekly calendar format. Below a time summery would be great. e.g. i worked on Monday 4 hours on task1 and 4 hours on task2, an i want to visualize this.

    what you say?
    greetz (-:

    see wochenplan or weekplan in google picture search:
    https://www.google.at/search?q=wochenplan&client=firefox-a&hs=u2E&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=AZeDUfarCeaD4ATf5YDIAg&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=957#client=firefox-a&hs=92E&rls=org.mozilla:de%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=wochenplan&oq=wochenplan&gs_l=img.3..0l10.7823.8880.2.9038.10.6.0.4.4.0.108.445.5j1.6.0...0.0...1c.1.12.img.BtSJ9szvuIE&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.bGE&fp=52d2c1521296e2e7&biw=1680&bih=957

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  12. Gestione di più liste sulla barra

    Gestione di più liste sulla barra nello stile con cui firefox apre più pagine nella stessa sessione

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    You can already have multiple viewers. Just add New Viewers with the menus and you can place them in the same pane and they will be tabs.

    These separate viewers can be filtered in different ways or have different columns etc.

    If you want separate .tsk files open at once, vote for this request:
    https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/408568-add-support-for-opening-multiple-tsk-files

    If you want presets for different viewing options for each viewer, vote for this:
    https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/329664-save-and-reapply-custom-layouts

    Cheers,
    Aaron

  13. could you pls add a hyperlink function to a project? sometime i need to link a project to a local folder in my computer.

    thanks for your effort to make this very good program.
    I wish to see a hyperlink from a project to a local folder or files.
    in addition, sometimes i just want to copy any file, folder in to this program instead of browsing for an attachment.
    I also wish that you can make more fields then a gantt chart can be obtain when required.
    thanks.

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    You can link via attachments already. You can make attachments by simply dropping an item onto an object in Task Coach. Otherwise, please make separate feature requests for different ideas. There is no way we can consider a mix of separate ideas like this. And please search to see if there are existing requests before posting.

    Cheers

  14. When creating a new task, allow it to be active by default

    Currently, a new task is set as inactive and it ends up being filtered out when 'Hide Inactive Tasks' is enabled. Removing the filter and searching for the new task is a bit cumbersome.

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  15. Automatic unfold for specific condition

    There is a usefull recap at the bottom of the window (in french it is : Récap: X en dépassement, Y en retard, Z inactive, etc.). However, if you want to see quickly every "en dépassement" tasks, you have to unfold every folder one by one to see where they are.
    An automatic unfold on all "en dépassement" would help quickly see each tasks you have to do fast.
    If not, a button which would automatically fold or unfold all folders would help

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    This is already possible. Here’s the details for English:

    First, you can collapse or expand everything in the View > Tree Options (also keyboard shift-cntrl-E and shift-cntrl-C), but that’s not really what you want here.

    Here’s what you want: You can hide and show any type of state by doing this:

    1. Click the gear to customize your toolbar
    2. Add all the different hide/show buttons for every state
    3. these buttons let you hide and show any combination of states, and you can also use the “clear all filters” button to show everything. You can also shift-click on a state to show ONLY that state!
    (note: I recommend putting these buttons on the right to be separated from the action buttons on the left)

    [my personal feeling is that these should be there by default, but the other developers wanted to keep things simpler and have only the inactive…

  16. Show part of the next month in the date picker

    The new date picker is a significant improvement over the old widget, especially on Ubuntu, but could be made easier to use.

    The most common use I have for changing the date for a task is procrastination--moving the date a couple of days into the future. At the end of the month this gets harder, a few days in the future is the next month.

    It would be nice if Task Coach date picker took the approach of other electronic calendar selectors I've seen and showed a few days of the next month and allowed them to be selected. For…

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  17. Allow deafult selection of Task Category when creating new tasks

    I would like to have new tasks automatically categorized into a defined group when creating them.

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    This is already pretty simple. Click a category before creating so you are seeing only that category. All tasks made in this state will automatically be part of that category. You can select multiple categories at once and that works too.

    Cheers,
    Aaron

  18. Add automatic time and date stamp to the notes interface

    Add automatic time and date stamp to the notes interface and remove the subject field (see Basecamp for example). Simplicity saves time. Currently I do not use the notes interface. Instead I use the description interface and manually add time stamp to each status note. BTW, you guys are awesome.

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    I think your request is just a duplicate of this:
    https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/819943-add-a-button-to-insert-date-time-in-comments-notes

    So I am closing this new request.

    But notice also:
    Creation date for items is now included in the latest version. You can show a column to see it if you like in various viewers, but it won’t have info for items made before this feature was added. Modification date is now added as well and will be in version 1.3.23, but you can try it now with the latest bugfix version: http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py

    Cheers,
    Aaron

  19. buildlib should not stay in the final package

    Buildlib is installed in the end-user global python namespace at the same time than taskcoachlib. This is unwanted, but the source targets rely on it, so removing it is no as trivial as editing one line in setup.py.

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  20. Sync with my googledrive ，so we can keep track on the move

    Sync with my googledrive ，so we can keep track on the move

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    completed  ·  AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) responded

    You can do this already. Just run the client software and save your .tsk file in the synced directory. Then you can open the file on any computer that has Task Coach installed and can access the Google Drive.

    I do this myself with DropBox.

    Note: you still can only have one Task Coach program open at a time, until this request is done:
    https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/288999-enable-multi-user-task-management-

    Also, if you were talking about syncing with the iOS client, that’s different. That won’t work with Google Drive or DropBox or anything else.
    There’s already a request though:
    https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/23263-ios-iphone-ipod-touch-ipad-version-of-task-c/suggestions/2074645-add-some-full-cloud-sync-system

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