Tasks - more Progress Status Types
It will be great if you add task statuses different than 'in progress' and 'closed' i.e. we are software company that have different workflow:
'not started', 'in progress', 'done', 'for testing', 'competed', 'archived'
Sudheer YVN
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Hi All,
I updated the concept and published http://bit.ly/2uvRsKy
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Cheers,
Igor
137 comments
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Jay87
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This is such a simple, yet major decision changing feature.
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Anonymous
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any progress on this?
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Jonathan
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Even if this sounds minimal or arbitrary to Igor and Freedcamp, I cannot persuade my team to use this software until given full control of columns/statuses/lists/Kanban or whatever you want to call them. I don't think "sub-statuses" will cut it either.
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Anonymous
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Yes - I am desperately waiting for this.... I have even started looking at other solutions.
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@Diamond - semantically 'yes' it is either in progress, not in progress or completed. In progress status can be 'Testing', no progress status can be 'On Hold' or 'Blocked'.
Kanban columns are not equal to task statuses. We have this posting here really about two different things
- I want to call my statuses to give them different names such as 'Testing', 'On Hold' or 'Blocked'. If you want to create a new status you will need to tell the system if Testing is one of - doing, not doing or done so Freedcamp knows when you will want to see all tasks 'doing' to be filtered and for many other things
- I want more Kanban columns - the obvious solution here is to allow to define what Kanban columns are (task lists, people, statuses or priorities). If you create task list 'Test' and set your Kanban to use task lists as columns you will see column 'Test'.
I personally (igor[]free..[]com) think that 'Test' is not a status. It can be a task list or a tag. 'Test' semantically does not tell you if it is ready for testing, in testing or completed testing, so cannot act as a status but with the first bullet point - sure you can set it as a status if you want, but will have to define if it status semantically tied to not doing, doing or done.
So no - we do not want to tell anyone what to do. Two bullet points I outlined provide enough room for you to create as many Kanban columns but do even more - set columns to be task lists and group by a person, priority, due date (currently Kanban is always statuses for columns and task lists for grouping).
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Diamond
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"We think that each task can be only in progress..."??? Seriously??? You're going to tell me how I should organize my projects?!? How about: "the customer wants". I want the ability to create as many customizable Kanban columns as I think is needed for my project. Until this happens, I'll continue to use Asana.
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Anonymous
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Hi! When will this be moved to a development stage? As a work around, I created various lists so when a task is completed, I move it to the new list to complete the workflow.
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Jean
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With this feature, I'd order 100 business licences ! :)
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Sherin Sudarsanan
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Perfect, This Feature along with the simple design and easy to understand flow, would make Freedcamp the Best. Very Nice to hear this. Customizable task status' are really useful in today's agile world.
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eri
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kanban with 3 unchangeable columns is really not a kanban. It must be adjustable based on user needs
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benjy rose
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Customizable project statuses would be an extremely useful feature. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the desire to keep Statuses as No Progress / In Progress / Completed seems arbitrary, even if substatuses are allowed.
If we're thinking about extending this, then it would make much more sense to make it completely flexible and allow an infinite number of statuses which could be used as Kanban columns or Task List groupings (swim lanes).
Start with the current three statuses as defaults, but make it extensible. That's my vote.
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David Jorjani
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Hi, What's the ETA on this feature? We can't work without it anymore and really need it to be able to stay with Freedcamp.
Thanks
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Tamala Bradham
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Please consider allowing us to edit the Kanban columns to other categories and the ability to add additional columns. For example, I would like to add a resource column that accompanies the project. We also have an approval process for projects and it would be good to be able to see what step in the progress the project is in without having to search each task.
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"Cannot Complete" Redlining Function
I think it would be great to add a redlining function to cross off tasks that you never did or won't work but still want to be part of the thinking process.
Say one has three ideas for jelly flavors:
Pickle Juice
Boisenberry
KiwiOut of the three, a logical person would write reports for the last two but skip the first one. While we still want to know we came up with the idea for the wrong jelly flavor but will not mark as completed since we did not write a report for that item.
Additionally, if you have a list of guests. 10 say they can come and 5 say they cannot come. There's no visual way to differentiate between the two groups if they both have to be marked as completed to get them out of the way in a green (positive) manner.
@Adrienne
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Let's not mix more statuses and more Kanban columns because these are completely different things. Unless in your workflow a task added to Testing status is immediately assumed in progress - Testing is not a status but a task list where you add a task to and someone starts testing and completes it and moved it to 'Release' task list.
However, we do want to unify how most used Freedcamp application - Tasks works.
We want to allow flexible groupings - currently tasks grouped by a task list with an option to remove groupings entirely.Kanban view is special as you have groupings - currently task lists and columns (currently statuses). So here we can allow you to decide what attributes you want to use (if any) for grouping and what to use as columns. So you can have no grouping and task lists as columns or people as groupings and statuses as columns.
This concept is demonstrated here https://www.dropbox.com/s/gwnunq91u5hrl4i/Tasks%20Views.png?dl=0 and applies to all views - List, Kanban and Gantt with the exception that Kanban will also allow to define what to use as columns.
Once this is done - it will cover most use cases and we will only implement substatuses - an ability to define 'Blocked', 'Waiting response' as a substatuses for 'No Progress' status and ability to expose substatuses as columns and groupings. We would like to keep them as substatuses as we know semantics which is only split into 3 things - not doing, doing and done so we can use it in Freedcamp to help you complete your projects faster.
Let us know what you think in the comments, please!
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Ernesto Flames
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Yes please, more kanban columns!... For example, in my job we are using this structure:
- Backlog (to store all epics and ideas) only the project admin can edit them
- To do (Freedcamp not in progress column)
- In progress (Freedcamp in progress column)
- UAT - Task done but waiting for user testing or waiting for approval
- Ready for PRD - Accepted by user and waiting for implementation
- Done - Task has been implemented in production.Yes, too many but we are a large development team, would be a nice improve of Freedcamp man!!.. hehe and sorry for my english by the way.
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Jim Bob
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Would like to know when this planned feature is in because it's the only thing stopping me from using Freed Camp, Ora.pm has the best Kaban board out there, learn from them.
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@Mike - all 3 main statuses will have custom sub-statuses. Right now you can use Custom Fields and add extra d/down "Sub-status":
No Progress - Planned
No Progress - Waiting for Approval
No Progress - Delayed
In Progress - Testing
In Progress - Review
Completed - Declined
etc.Custom Fields, once used, are exposed to filters so you can easily use them to create your most needed filters and switch contexts quickly.
See here for details - https://freedcamp.com/Freedcamp_LxR/Freedcamp_Devel_yOf/wiki/wiki_public/view/3Tbab
It is part of Freedcamp Business -
MikeM
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I frankly agree w/ the Freedcamp position that the three states are sufficient *if* (and only if) those states can have substates. Being able to sort/filter at the two levels seems very valuable to me.
Note that even "Completed" needs possible substates... for example, I have tasks that are decided against (never completed, or perhaps even started) due to changing environment. I don't want to delete them for historical reasons, but marking them Complete is not right either. I'd like a Completed substate of "Abandoned" or similar.
PS: I'm currently on free... keep planning to upgrade to paid plan but have never pulled the trigger... this change would definitely push me into action :-)
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@Daniel,
Do you agree with an action plan provided in the latest status update? Are you planning to go with one of our premium plans or only interested in the free plan? You can contact me help@freedcamp.com.
Cheers,
Igor
