Quire encourages you to organize tasks into hierarchies. We're using it to track software development projects and have experimented with using components/versions/... as the parents for our issues in the hierarchy.
When doing that, one feature we're missing is the ability to create a filter that includes children/descendants of a particular tasks.
For example, if we created a hierarchy like this:
- v1
- task 1
- task 2
- task 3
- v2
- component A
- task 1
- task 2
- component A
For this way of organizing thing, it would be nice to be able to create a filter for all children of "v1" or "v2". That way, we could have a release planning board for all releases by just selecting the correct filter. Or have a board per component if we switch the hierachy around.
A second suggestion would be to allow for that filter to only include the 'leaf' nodes. In the "component A" example, we don't want that node to appear on the board. That node is only there to organize the other tasks, it's not an 'actionable' task in itself.
I even have a suggestion for the UI for this feature: you could add a "create filter for this task" menu item to the ... menu on the task detail. That way, the functionality is there, without impacting the nice, minimalistic UI you currently have.
@peggy - that's a good start! Thanks!
Gert Vanthienen, Sep 27, 2019
Hi @gertv , I suggest you could create two separate boards (name them as v1 and v2 respectively), and add the tasks under their tree to the board separately.
As for the “component A” (the unactionable task), you don’t have to add them in the board, you can just toggle on the breadcrumbs by hitting Ctrl (or Alt for Mac), then you see which parent task the subtask belongs to. Hope this helps.
Peggy, Sep 18, 2019
@peggy - that would be a step in the right direction, I think.
Gert Vanthienen, Sep 20, 2019
Hi @gertv you can now multiple select when adding existing tasks in the board view. 🎉 Hope this help with your case.
Peggy, Sep 27, 2019
@joshuarobison.biz yeah, something like Todoist's unactionable tasks would actually help in solving part of the problem
Gert Vanthienen, Sep 18, 2019
@peggy This is exactly what we're doing at the moment: we create a board for every release, select the actionable tasks from the tree and add them to the board.
The ability to create a filter for part of the task tree would simplify/streamline this process and would help us keep the boards up-to-date as tasks get moved between releases/components/...
Gert Vanthienen, Sep 18, 2019