Multiple task connections and
comment feed optimization

Hel­lo, friends! Yet again, we have some great updates for you: this time — we worked hard to meet requests of the big com­pa­nies. Wel­come the pos­si­bil­i­ty of build­ing mul­ti­ple con­nec­tions in the Gan­nt chart as well as the opti­miza­tion of the lengthy com­ment feeds.

Mul­ti­ple Gantt connections

As you already know, there are two basic and the most used con­nec­tion types in Work­sec­tion that deter­mine the start­ing date of tasks: Start-Start and Fin­ish-Start. How­ev­er, it had some limitations:

any num­ber of tasks and sub­tasks can depend on the task. How­ev­er, the task itself can only depend on one task.

Besides that, you no longer be wast­ing your time set­ting up the con­nec­tions for tasks and the sub­tasks, because we’ve imple­ment­ed auto­mat­ic link between them.

Mass change of dates

Chang­ing a task’s Start and Fin­ish in bulk can be done in Tasks or Tasks & Com­mu­ni­ca­tions with the help of Date tab. 

Thanks to the auto­mat­ic con­nec­tion of sub­tasks with the par­ent task, the set­ting of a new Start for a task with sub­tasks became so much eas­i­er. All you need to do is to set new Start for your task, and all of its sub­tasks will fol­low it auto­mat­i­cal­ly. All the rela­tions and dates will not change1. We remind you that the date not only can be changed in this win­dow but you also can move it for­ward or back­ward for X days. It also can be cleared. The access to these fea­tures is in the head­er2.

In case, when there is no need to change dates for the entire task but only a change in date for a par­tic­u­lar task is required, you can just mark only that task on the list and set the desired date.

new Links for the rela­tions in the stan­dard Date window

Now, when you open a stan­dard win­dow of the date change of a con­nect­ed task or a sub­task, you can see all the infor­ma­tion about incom­ing con­nec­tions (if there are some).

1. Expand/​hide infor­ma­tion about connections
2. Break all connections
3. Go to the view of the visu­al struc­ture of con­nec­tions in the Gantt chart

That is all with the con­nec­tions. Now let’s touch upon a top­ic that is way sim­pler and rel­e­vant to everyone.

Com­ment feed

You’ve prob­a­bly already noticed, but still…

1. In the head­er of the Com­ments feed, there have appeared anchor but­tons on today’s and yesterday’s com­ments (if there are any). This allows to find out if there is any updat­ed infor­ma­tion with just one click move to the begin­ning of today’s or yesterday’s discussion.
2. There were added month indi­ca­tors that can help nav­i­gate the chronol­o­gy of events.
3. Bright time com­ments dividers are for Yes­ter­day and Today. The feed will be scrolled to them once one of the but­tons is clicked1.

new Old­er com­ments are auto­mat­i­cal­ly min­i­mized in lengthy feeds

There are tasks in which dis­cus­sions hap­pen so active­ly and for such a long time that com­ment feed becomes too lengthy for work­ing comfortably.

We solved this prob­lem. Now, when there are more than 100 com­ments in a feed, the algo­rithm begins to hide old­er comments.

Please note Com­ments with open check­lists and com­ments marked with a star3, will nev­er ​“be hid­den”. They remain vis­i­ble at all times above the min­i­mized fold. When expand­ed, they stay in their cor­re­spond­ing chrono­log­i­cal places. 

Please note: when there are less than 100 com­ments, no min­i­miza­tion occurs.

new Indi­ca­tors — New, Today, Yesterday

1. As ear­li­er, all unread mes­sages are marked with a green icon
2. Yel­low icon will noti­fy that lat­est com­ment is from today
3. Pur­ple icon indi­cates that the lat­est com­ment was yesterday

This way, you can see when and where cor­re­spon­dence occured with­out click­ing on the task itself as well as see in which tasks you’ve read all the com­ments and in which you haven’t done so yet.

Please note! Indi­ca­tors of unread, today’s, or yes­ter­day’s com­ments will appear only if you are sub­scribed to the task!

Have a pro­duc­tive work time!