viewers

Viewers

This page will help you learn everything you need to know about viewers. Viewers are one of the features that makes task coach a powerful tool. It allow for quick access to many different features and function that otherwise might be difficult to access. Some viewers will create result inside other viewers such as selecting a category in the categories viewer will filter out only those categories in the task viewer.

Viewer Pane anatomy

All viewer panes are created with these main parts to them.

Title bar

• Holds the title of the viewer.
• The title can be changed by.... TODO
  
  

Tool bar

• The toolbar hold features specific to the type of thing you are viewing. For example in categories viewer you can create new categories, in tasks new tasks etc.
• You can also filter the items in the viewing pane by adding filter to the right side of the toolbar
• There is also preferences to the right side of the toolbar which allows you to change the toolbar settings as you deem necessary.
  
  

Viewing pane

• The viewing pane has columns to allow for reading additional information about a specific item in the view.
• These columns also help with sorting items for easier find.
  
  

Tasks Viewer

The Tasks Viewer is the meat and potatoes of Task Coach. This is where you will find all your tasks. You will see all the different states, dates, and other information you might want to add to the columns. The
task viewers tool bar has many features specific to the tasks viewer. You can create new tasks, new subitems, and create tasks from templates. You also have the ability to filter out tasks that are active, inactive, etc. By double clicking on a task you can easily open the task editing page.

There are two main ways to view the tasks.

Tree View

• Tree view allows for viewing the tasks as folder and items within the folder. Its organized and you can follow a branch all the way down to a specific task.
• Tree view allows you to have expandable folder so you can see as you need under one subtask.
• Under view --> Tree Options you have 2 function which will allow you to expand or collapse all the tasks as needed.
  
  

List View

• List View show you all the tasks as one large list of tasks. This view does give you information based off the subitems etc. I think this feature is mainly used in conjuction with filtering to allow for better viewing/finding tasks.
  
  

Categories

The categories viewer allows you to create categories, sub categories, edit, and delete. You also have the ability to filer/search the categories if needed. The very nice beneficial thing about the categories viewer is that it also allows you to filter the tasks in your Task Viewer by selecting the category. When selecting multiple categories it work as an OR statement any tasks with the selected categories will be displayed.

Effort

The effort viewer allows for you to track time. You can start tracking time to a selected task. You can also view all the effort for a given amount of time. For example you can see all the effort based off a day,
week or month. Like most viewers you also have the ability to search/filter and preferences with additional options for dealing with efforts.

Effort for one Task

This viewer allows you to track effort for a specific task. The way this work is that you select the task you want to view effort for in the main task viewer then you go to view-->new viewer-->effort for one task. This new viewer will be locked to the specific task you had selected at the time of creating the viewer. It doesn't automatically update when selecting new tasks in the task viewer.

Notes

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Calendar

The calendar view allow viewing of a customizable calendar. You can select if you want to ... TODO