By: Yogi

Yogi — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 11:32:41 +0000

In reply to John K.

Hi John, thanks for sharing how you’re currently using DropTask. The categories within the workflow are pretty flexible, so they can be used to represent progress or even specific stages within a project cycle. For example, we use the Workflow for blogging as it allows us to shift tasks into the ‘next’ category depending on what state it is in. Some of our columns include ‘editing’, ‘proofing’ and ‘published’. On the other hand, the workflow can also be used to indicate general progress with category columns such as ‘doing’ and ‘done’. How you name these categories will depend upon the nature of the work you’re completing, but the option to automatically create them based on specific attributes that have already been set isn’t possible at this time. Certainly an interesting suggestion though. If you have a moment, I’d encourage you to put this forward on our official suggestions forum which gets reviewed by our development teams regularly: http://feedback.droptask.com/forums/193469-general

By: John K

John K — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 20:03:35 +0000

I have a personal responsibilities project that is organized into logical categories of Finances, Household, Relationships, Education on the Canvas. Those categories are organized by subcategories and tasks that are determined by the nature of those tasks, not by their progress. Shouldn’t the Kanban view of this project be derived by the tasks’ attributes. There’s another task management tool that lets you create Kanban columns based on any attribute of a task, whether it be progress, tags, category, dates, assigned to, etc. They act as live filters rather than static categories.

Creating explicit categories for progress is a start, but is very constricting. Am I missing something?

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