Taskboard
Overview all your personal tasks or all the tasks within your team or suppliers, with the use of Taskboard.
Introduction & best practice
Use the Taskboard to view all your open tasks as a To-do list or overview your team/supplier's task for e.g. an entire season. The Taskboard is your daily tool to make sure that all deadlines are met on your styles, items or certificates.
Create tasks and link them directly to specific styles, items or certificates, or create overall tasks.
The Taskboard lives in the new beta version of Delogue 2.0. To access the beta site, simply click on the button called 'Try Delogue 2.0' after logging in to the platform.
Click here to learn more about Delogue 2.0
Table of contents
- Video guide - Taskboard tutorial
- Step-by-step guide
- The Taskboard view
- Creating new tasks
- Link your task
- Assign your task
- Task priority
- Update single/multiple tasks
- Copy tasks
- Delete tasks
- Set up filter in your overview
Video guide - Taskboard tutorial
Description
This video gives you a brief introduction to the main functionalities of the Taskboard, explaining:
- The general Taskboard view
- The column selector, using filters
- Add a task and add a task note
- Link, assign and prioritise a task
- Edit multiple tasks, search for a task
- Mark a task as read, copy and delete a task
Step-by-step guide
The Taskboard view
You will find the Taskboard in the navigation bar on the left-hand side of the screen.
The first time you visit the Taskboard, you will see a standardized table with default columns selected. The overview will by default present 'your tasks'.
Any existing tasks assigned to you, will be presented in this view.
NOTE: If you prefer to view your style tasks in the existing 'Dashboard', you can still do so. However, the item tasks and certificate tasks are only available in the 'Taskboard'.
Search in your view
In the Taskboard view you have a search field to quickly search upon specific data.
It can be used for a quick search of style name/number, but it can also be used for searching for specifics notes added to the tasks.
You find the search field in the upper right-hand side corner of the table view.
Create new tasks
In the Taskboard you can create tasks with or without a link to either styles, items or certificates.
1. Click on the 'add a task' button found in the upper right-hand corner or at the bottom of the task list.
2. A new line will appear in the bottom of the Taskboard overview.
3. Start by adding the Task description.
You can select from the list of tasks from any Workflow or you can write the task description manually.
INFO: You can still create style tasks directly on the style page. Read more about it here: Workflow and tasks on styles
All tasks made on the style page will also be visible in the taskboard overview.
4. Once the task has been created, you can link your task or add more information such as notes.
Link your task
It is not required to link your tasks to any specific styles, items or certificates. In the Taskboard you are allowed to create overall tasks that does not have any links.
This could be used in case of more overall collection based tasks or personal tasks for your own To-do list.
To link your tasks, simply follow these steps:
1. In the column 'Linked to', click once to edit.
2. Start by adding '@' and type in the name or number of the style / Item / certificate that you want to link to.
NOTE: If you have multiple styles, items or certificates with the same name and number, you can hover over the 3 dots on the right-hand side of the options to view more details.
3. Select the correct option and see that the information from the selected option will automaticaly be filled out in the related columns.
Assign your task
When creating a task, the task is automatically assigned to you.
You can easily change who the assignee should be.
1. Either click on the assignee name or at the 3 dots on the right-hand side to edit the assignee.
2. In the drop-down list, you can select between brand users or the supplier contact.
3. Select the correct person and the change is automatically saved.
Task priority
Priorities the tasks that you are creating to make sure that the most urgent tasks are resolved first. You can also use the priority to prioritize your own tasks after receiving them from your colleagues.
1. To set a priority, simply click on the field in the priority column
2. Select between the 3 priorities:
- Low
- Medium
- High
Update single/multiple tasks
You can update the information on your tasks either in batches or single task edits.
Information fields that can be edited:
- Task description
- Linked to - (This will affect the columns with information related to the style / item / certificate that is linked to e.g. the image, name, number etc.)
- Assignee
- Priority
- State
- Deadline
Single task edit
To edit any data in a single task, simple click once on the field that you want to edit and update the data. You can also use the 3 dots on the right-hand side to edit the field.
Batch edit of tasks
When working on multiple tasks at the same time, the system allow you to update the tasks in batches.
1. Start by selecting the tasks you want to edit by using the selector tool.
2. On one of the tasks, click on the data field you want to edit.
3. Update the data and click on 'enter' or click outside the field.
4. A confirmation pop-up will appear. Click on 'Apply changes' to apply the update on all selected tasks.
NOTE: If you don't want the confirmation pop-up to show every time you make batch edits, simply check on the 'Don't show again'.
Copy tasks
With the task selector, you will be able to do select one or multiple tasks for additional editing such as copying the task(s).
1. Select the the task(s) that you want to copy.
2. Above the table you now see some additional editing options.
3. Click on the 'copy'.
4. A success notification will show, confirming the copy.
5. The task(s) will be copied and placed at the bottom of the task list.
Delete tasks
With the task selector, you will be able to do select one or multiple tasks for additional editing such as deleting the task(s).
1. Select the the task(s) that you want to delete.
2. Above the table you now see some additional editing options.
3. Click on the 'Delete'.
4. A success notification will show, confirming that the task(s) will be deleted.
The success notification will automatically disappear after 8 sec.
Set up filter in your overview
In the top of the Taskboard you will find the 'filter' setting. The filter can help you sort out tasks related to e.g. a specific season, a specific supplier etc.
1. Click on the 'Filter' button.
2. In the drop-down, select the column you want to filter on.
3. A new drop-down will appear. Select one or more values in the drop-down to include in the filter.
4. If you need to add multiple filters, simply click on the plus in the bottom right-hand corner called 'Add a filter'.
5. Repeat step 2-4 until you have setup all your filters.
6. To close the filter setting, simply click on the 'Filter' button once again.
The 'Filter' button will be marked, when there is an active filter.
Clear all filters
1. Click on the 'Filter' button.
2. Click on 'Clear all filters'.