Tasks vs. Checklists

The new interface is very clean. Congratulations.

In order to ensure consistency of the user interface and a smooth user experience for all levels of users (beginner and advanced), I think it would be best to use the word Checklist OR Task, not both - particularly since the word task is associated with milestones and the word task does not appear in the top option menu.

My $0.02.

Mark

I must admit I've always been a bit confused by the naming :(

I like your idea Mark: "Task Lists" and "Tasks" +1

I like the way that checklists have tasks under them. It's nice to see the groups of tasks (checklists) at a high level and then and then look at the checklists themselves to see all of the specific tasks. I do agree that calling them "task lists" or "to-do lists" would be more intuitively understandable.

What would make this feature even better for me is if Checklists could be copied between projects. That way for example I could use my "Initial Project Start-up" checklist with all of my projects but then use a copy of the "Demo Development" checklist only when I need it for projects that have a Demo.

I do have one question. Right now a have a milestone that says "No tasks in this milestone..." how do I associate tasks with milestones.

For most of what I do things at the checklist level would be synonymous with milestones. But, I could see having a major milestone comprised of multiple checklists with multiple tasks under them. I could also see the need to break this out so that individual checklists of tasks could be assigned to different people who are working together to accomplish a milestone in the project.

Please explain how to associate my checklists and/or tasks with milestones. Thanks

Please, yes, Rename Checklist to Task Lists. Also, do we need to create everytime a new Checklist/TaskList to apply more tasks under a Milestone ? why now assigning task right under the milestone ?

L.

You can hack the Tab easily to say whatever you want.

activecollab/application/modules/checklists/handlers/on_project_tabs.php


Just change line 19 from:
'text' => lang('Checklists'),

to
'text' => lang('Tasklist'),

or to whatever you want it to say.