Hello.
When looking at Task list in Websked, the available sortable columns include "Due Date."
The problem:
"Due Date" is created automatically by the system when a story is moved from one workflow status to another. So, a story moves from, say, "write" to "edit" and we have a task trigger that creates a task.
Right?
So these tasks that are system generated have due dates that are based on a time parameter we set in creating the task trigger. So every task created by a certain task trigger will have a due date exactly the same time from when it was triggered.
So if the task trigger says due date is 4 days from when it was triggered, every task created by that trigger has a due date 4 days later. Regardless of actual deadline for each story.
This isn't ideal.
Better would be to have a column listing Planned Ready Times. Those accurately state story deadlines.
We may have two stories triggering tasks at the same time, so their due dates will be exactly the same - but one may have a Planned Ready Time of tomorrow at 2 pm while the other has a Planned Ready Time of three weeks in the future.
Due Date does nothing to help in this case. Yes, you can expand the task view to see PRTs, but better would be a toggle-able column of PRTs.
That way, editors could easily prioritize stories by PRT. Which is the date we prioritize them by, anyway.
So:
Could we please get the Tasks view altered to include a PRT column? Our editors would be very happy.
Thank you.
Steven Proceviat
Thanks for the Idea -- I definitely see how PRT would be a more relevant deadline in this situation.
We do not have any task-related work in flight at the moment, but we'll keep this in consideration for the future.
While not ideal to require development, it would be possible to create a very lightweight IFX integration that updates the task deadline to match the plan ready time.