Suggestion: Multiple comments for a single task or a date splitter in comments

[SJ]

Hi .Dan.g

Not sure if this topic was discussed already and not sure how much of this is possible. I am just adding this for brainstorming

Here is the use case :

I have parent task and sub-tasks.

I have day to day activities on subtasks which I update in comments using a datetime stamp 

Example:

 

3/22/2017 11:17:43 AM

___________________

update for 3/22

 

 

3/24/2017 11:17:53 AM

______________________

update for  3/24

Can we have multiple comments for a task ? we can have a "+" button at top to add new comments as necessary for a single task

[Ralph Earey]

Hi SJ, try Ctrl+D. Even better when used with the 'Append the user's name' & 'Append the following text' preferences (see attached).

[SJ]

Hi Ralph,

I am already using Ctrl-D to enter username and datetimestamp , etc. 

But my point is little bit different : have a separation of comments instead, so that we can slice and dice the comments section

Right now in TDL file we have 

<COMMENTS> ....

</COMMENTS>

my point is  adding something like :

<COMMENTS>

<COMMENT  timestamp="3/24/2017 11:17:53 AM">

</COMMENT>

</COMMENTS>

## Advantage ##

1. visual separation in UI 

2. Quick deletion of comments made on particular date or timestamp.

3. Better filtering of all tasks updated / commented on particular date.

[Kore Engineer]

You could use Task Coach

[.dan.g.]

Hi SJ

>> 1. visual separation in UI 

Unfortunately the current Rich Text implementation uses the Windows Rich Text control, which also powers WordPad. 

To make this control work to handle discrete comments sections would be next to impossible I believe. So we would really be looking at a new plugin using some other component.

>> 2. Quick deletion of comments made on particular date or timestamp.

I hope you are not talking about being able to delete comments directly from the XML file :)

>> 3. Better filtering of all tasks updated / commented on particular date.

This would require modification of the IContentControl interface to support multiple discrete time-stamped comments because it is the core application that is responsible for wrapping this as XML. Currently the Rich Text content is a black-box to the app.

Not wholly impossible but a lot of work nonetheless. 

Dan