Offer way to split task over more than one period
Sometimes we work on a task 1 week in this month and two weeks in the next with a break in between. It would be great to be able to specify more than one activity periods per task. Possibly with a recurring pattern like 2 days per week.
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Andrew Armitage commented
Shame this isn't on the road map - would be a very useful addition.
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AdminNathan (Co-Founder, TeamGantt) commented
Unfortunately, it's still not on our roadmap as of now, but it is something we will continue to consider to for down the road.
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Anonymous commented
How close is teamgantt to making this 'recurring tasks' a feature. As it has been more than 3 years since the initial posting and this feature is something that is very important for us as a start-up trying to use Teamgantt to both structure tasks as well as our weekly calendar. Thanks!
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AdminNathan (Co-Founder, TeamGantt) commented
Thanks for all the comments on this. We are still hashing it out and it's a possibility for down the road. I can definitely see how this would be useful. We are getting ready to release a feature for estimating how many hours a task will take. We are kicking around ideas for possibly working something like this in as well for a later release.
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James commented
Hello, Just adding to this. This would be a great addition to Teamgantt. For us the three reasons so far to add this would be:
- Recurring meetings (weekly/monthly team meetings)
- Recurring external dates that need to be aligned (our development with client sprint dates)
- Team holiday or unavailability. This can be covered in the resourcing but would be good to be able to add holidays of non-resourced people also.To possibly answer the problems around percentage, resource and dependencies.
I think it would be a good first step to initiate the task as a percentage of the total days, for example if we have a ten week project with one day per week (lets say each monday) as a team meeting then then the total percentage of the task could be the full ten meeting days, with each 10% complete marking duration of task complete. I think this is similar to how MS project handles this.
The resource (at least initially) I think most people would be happy to have assigned to the task in full, for example, you must have all resources for each of the ten meetings, not being able to change who attends each week.
Dependencies, agreed would be tricky. Would you be able to pull the dependency line from the end of each meeting each week, at each break point. Or would you only allow dependencies against the final completion of the task (all meetings complete). For ease of implementation for a quick fix I think people would be happy to have no dependencies for split tasks, it seems most people simply want to show dates of multiple dated/same tasks like meetings, sprint dates, system review etc. A second release i think would be great to have dependencies on the 100% complete, and another release addressing dependencies on partially complete tasks.
Thats what i would like to see for my projects at any rate. Until then we will be adding 10 tasks called 'weekly meeting' with 10 separate dates. I hope this can get added soon.
fingers crossed! This is a great product, it would be great to make it greater!
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Sam commented
This is a 'must-have' and I can't believe it's not been done yet.
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Nick Pateman commented
This functionality would be incredibly helpful for us as well.
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Jonty Roots commented
I was just about to add the same thought then saw this thread. We can have 20 or 30 projects running concurrently so to split out all the phases of an activity as separate tasks is completely unrealistic.
This feels like quite a fundamental piece of functionality so would be great to see it in there.
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Keiron commented
I have thought the same. We have many occasions where work is only partly completed on a scheduled day. Then left a few days to work on other projects.
We are just dragging the task over and reforming it to the current estimated time remaining. This provides no way of looking backwards on the chart to see how we have been tracking.
The problem with this, is when I print and send a client (or invite them to view the schedule during a meeting) the blocked out time doesn't correspond with the quoted time we have provided. So in their minds they are looking at the chart and wondering about fees. This has happened with a friend/client a few months back. Luckily it was easy to explain.
I understand there must be complexities, however I would really like the Teamgantt wizards to think this one thru carefully. Perhaps there is a simple solution??
If not, then please just keep it simple, thats why we are here using Teamgantt..
Would be great to see it happen..
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Chris Hoke commented
I need this, but I really need a "recurring" task. For example, I need to show how a recurring meeting impacts a project timeline. I also have developers that are on-call on a rotating basis. I need to be able to represent that recurring task.
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AdminNathan (Co-Founder, TeamGantt) commented
I can see how this would be useful. However, we probably won't be able to implement this one anytime in the immediate future as there a few complexities to this.
1) How would you want percent complete handled? Would you need to track the percent complete of each "phase" on that line?
2) How would resources be assigned? Does each "phase" need to be able to be assigned to different resources or does every phase get the same resource?
3) Dependencies could be a bit tricky as well.
Our goal is to keep TeamGantt as simple as possible. So we would need to find a way to do all this and still have the app be very simple to use. We will still think on it and consider it down the road. Any additional input to the above questions is welcome.
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Ben commented
We have the same problem. It would be nice to get some idea if this issue can be addressed. Thanks, Ben
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Jeff commented
I agree. We have tasks that go through phases. First phase is a week one month then the second phase may be 2 weeks then next. The amount of task phases is generally dependent on the completion of other task(s). PS: Adding another task to the vertical task list is not an option given that we may have thousands of tasks at any given time. This would multiply the list exponentially.
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darren commented
We have the same issue. Really would like to be able to split the same task multiple times throughout the project.