Hide Old Efforts
It would be great to have a way to hide old Efforts in the Effort Viewer. Task Coach appears to be getting slower over time, and I expect it is because I have so many Efforts visible in the Effort Viewer. (I have about 15-30 efforts per day.) It would be great if I could filter the Effort Viewer to only show efforts in a given time range (e.g., "the last 3 months" or "this year" or "this week" or "the last ___ days"). With 1653 efforts visible, I am afraid what will happen when that number doubles, triples, and more. Thanks!
There is already a request for filter-by-date-range:
http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/342012-filter-tasks-and-efforts-by-date-range
And there is another request for different viewers to allow their own filter settings:
http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/808389-separate-category-selection-and-other-filtering-so
The slow issue is a bug, not a feature request.
Regards,
Aaron
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andrew commented
Frank,
Thank you for adding the Anonymize feature! I will e-mail you a copy of my TaskCoach file.
Thanks,
Andrew -
Andrew, I understand you can't mail it to me, no problem. Task Coach does load all efforts in memory, that's why it knows how many you have, but the effort viewer does't show them all at once. It just shows the portion you're looking at. Anyway, can you elaborate a bit on what actions are slow for you? And does it make a difference whether the effort viewer is open or not?
Thanks, Frank
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andrew commented
Frank,
I wish I could just send you my task file. Unfortunately, I use TaskCoach to track work projects that contain confidential client information. It would be extremely time-intensive (perhaps impossible because of the "undo" feature) to scrub all the confidential data.
What do you mean that the effort viewer only displays the effort records that are actually visible? My effort viewer reports "1783 visible, 1783 total". I have uploaded a screenshot of my Task Coach setup here: http://img855.imageshack.us/f/taskcoachscreenshot.jpg/. The top window displays my active (i.e., not completed) tasks. It currently has 39 visible of 107 total. The bottom window displays all my tasks, and displays 107 of 107 total. The middle window, the effort viewer, displays 1783 visible of 1783 total efforts.
What would be nice would be a way to limit the date range for which the effort viewer displays efforts. There are times when I would want to see all efforts, but most of the time I only want to see the past few weeks. (But I realize this would introduce complications for the Day/Week/Month views, which are very useful features too.)
Thanks for all your hard work on Task Coach! I really appreciate it!
Regards,
Andrew -
Actually, the effort viewer only displays the effort records that are actually visible so I don't think it's the effort viewer that is causing the slowness. How many tasks do you have? Can we use your task file to analyse performance? If so, please mail it to me at frank@niessink.com.