Recurring Tasks: upgrade

The Recurring Task feature has had some love recently and we’ll be moving this onto accounts in the update at the end of the week.

When the Recurring Task is made the tasks are now created and will show in all views. The feedback we’ve received helped us move this up the dev list to bring this to our users sooner that we’d planned – I know that the benefits will be immediate.

We’ve added the ability to have a Due date on these tasks, we know it was difficult for this to show fully in reports, Tasks Page, Timeline and the Calendar. The reports were a real bugbear for the Recurring Tasks so the Projects reports, Tasks reports and Staff Workload Schedule report will now show these tasks.

As a little extra we’ve also added the ability to Auto-Number these Recurring Tasks. The majority of our users have Compulsory Task Ordering (ADMINISTRATION > Usability Settings) enabled so now when Recurring Tasks are made the order number will increment appropriately.

There is a new confirmation step before making the Tasks and here there is an option to send yourself a reminder when the last task is made, simply tick this box and hit Finish to create the Recurring Tasks.

We’ve removed the old Recurring Task section from the bottom of the Project Details page, you can access Recurring Tasks on your Project by using the Add Task dropdown. (All Projects will now have the Recurring Task option available and you will no longer have to select this in Project Settings or in Tools).

The changes simplify and streamline the Recurring Task process for users and we’re pleased to be able to sneak this update out to you sooner than promised.

We’ll contact current users of the Recurring Task feature to ensure you’re ready for the changes to be implemented, if you have any queries on this at all then please contact the ProWorkflow support team.

Tags: Add Task, proworkflow, Recurrance, recurring, Repeat, Schedule, tasks