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Support for Subtasks or Checklists

I'd like to break up a single tasks into multiple sub items

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if checklist items could be sorted into various buckets as well. I.E. each "task" may have various sub-tasks ("checklist" items), each of which in turn can be sorted into various sections (i.e. a group of marketing checklist items, a group of implementation checklist items items, etc., all of which roll up to one overall task). To reiterate what others have said below, it would also be helpful to be able to assign check list items to specific people, with due dates, etc., as well.

  • NBS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I like how checklists are now available for tasks.

    I've observed that Planner allows me to mark a task complete, even though there are incomplete checklist items for the task. The completed task then shows the incomplete checklist items. From my perspective, it would be better to do one of the following: 1) Generate an error informing the user they cannot mark a task complete without first completing the checklist items, or 2) Assume the user meant to check the checklist items as part of marking the task complete and automatically check any incomplete checklist items. The former goes along with another request here to require users to put data into mandatory fields before they can mark a task complete. I like the former approach better.

    The latter would be speedier, and perhaps making assumptions that all sub-tasks are done if a user marks the task complete would be a good approach.

    Making it a manual chore to check the items on the checklist without making that mandatory prior to a task being completed isn't very logical.

  • Emily Gallichan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree - we currently use sub-task checkboxes in Wunderlist. E.g. The task would be to advertise a particular course we were running online, then sub-tasks would be each website we need to list on, setting up Google adwords etc.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The checklists are nice. It would be even better to see subtasks that can be assigned to different users and each sub task can have it's own set checklists. Things are looking good so far.

  • Ryan Powell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hope this can work the way Trello does in that I just need a simple checklist inside of a card. I use that feature all the time for tracking system builds for example.

  • Bernard White commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great of there was someway to see a series of subtasks that need to be ordered, like assurance gates. Maybe they could be assigned a weighting that would represent a percentage of completion as you tick them off.

  • Christopher Woodward commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is huge. I'd like to see a checklist that can be copied and added to many different tasks.
    Used for System rollouts, software updates, etc. (Checklist of users.)

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