Google Calendar Integration and Assigned tasks

[Andrew Stern]

I have synced my Calendar to Gqueues and that works well for tasks
with due dates that are in one of my own queues. I have a colleague
who is sharing a queue with me and has assigned me a tasks with a due
date. I can't see this task on my Calendar. Am I doing something wrong
or is this a feature that has yet to been implemented. I looked around
the documentation and the forum but couldn't find an answer. Thanks!

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[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

Sorry, this functionality isn't implemented yet.  It's a great idea though, and I've added it to my list of improvements! -Cameron

[George (the other one)]

I'd love to second this. We are rolling GQ out across our organization
$25 at a time - . One of the big promises that we hope for is
collaborative work flow ie by having a central hub of tasks and
deadlines we can get our collective act together. Not having the
ability to have people put critical phase gate stuff on their calendar
is proving to be a MAJOR obstacle to that collaborative dream.

It would be great to be able to organize these share queues as
seamlessly as ones own Q, for example I have one category that is
"External Projects" and in it I have the three specific client
projects I'm working on. I am indifferent as to who set the project
up, I want to be able to use, organize, manipulate these tasks as
easily as if I set it up vs someone else on the team.

Currently there is this super category of "Friend Queues" and it
really hamstrings organization - because now my external and internal
projects are all in the same Friend list, along with the lists my wife
and I have going to organize our home life. Even if it has to live in
that Friends Q super-category, at the very least I want to be able to
clone it over to my own list taxonomy so that I can organize it and
process the work. Unfortunately neither dragging lists up to my Q or
even duping the lists and trying to move them works.

I'm really hoping I can get our whole organization on this GQ system -
but the calendaring/author dependent functionality is certainly a
significant barrier to getting everyone on the same page and so raises
barriers to adoption. Just wanted to make this tangible.

Cheers
George


On May 12, 9:55 am, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, this functionality isn't implemented yet.  It's a great idea though,
> and I've added it to my list of improvements! -Cameron
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Stern
> <and...@moskowitzcapital.com>wrote:
>
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> > I have synced my Calendar to Gqueues and that works well for tasks
> > with due dates that are in one of my own queues. I have a colleague
> > who is sharing a queue with me and has assigned me a tasks with a due
> > date. I can't see this task on my Calendar. Am I doing something wrong
> > or is this a feature that has yet to been implemented. I looked around
> > the documentation and the forum but couldn't find an answer. Thanks!
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[bnapptural]

Ditto

On May 27, 8:58 pm, "George (the other one)"

[Jesse]

Cameron,

It seems like this is a relatively hot issue (I've seen a lot of
similar posts) and it's also very important to me as well. I
appreciate that you've added it to your improvements list, but can you
comment regarding the priority? Do you see this as something to be
improved in the next couple updates or more of a 2+ month time frame?

I originally had grander visions of all items in a shared queue
showing on a team member's calendar, but even just assignments would
be a huge help.

I think you've got a great product here and I've been so disappointed
in the competition -- this is the first time I'm using something I
really believe in -- this kind of improvement would really make
GQueues the complete package for me.

Thanks for your attention to this,
Jesse

[Nik]

I fully agree - I am in the same boat, trying to adopt this across an
organization where we want to truly collaborate on our task lists.
Trying to make less tech savvy people adopt Gqueues requires it to
stay simple and intuitive. Although I love all the features that have
been added, Gqueues has lost some of the sleekness (if that's a word)
and UI simplicity.

"Truly collaborate" in my eyes means that every user sees the list as
their own.

I have said it before and will say it again: Top of the list for me is
the ability to place the queue where I want it. Remove the distinction
of "Friends Q" - if I want the shared list to be in my Work category,
I should be able to move it there. Having "Friends Queues" at the
bottom of the screen has that notion of it not being that important. I
really only need the two super categories: My Queues and Smart Queues.
I know if a queue is shared thanks to the icon that is attached to
it.

Let me use shared queues just as if they were my own. That includes
moving tasks to other queues, calendar integration, adding tags, etc.
etc.

There should be "the gqueues way" of dealing with tasks - that will
help me with my less tech savvy folks. Right now I have to explain
that there are two different types of queues that do different things
- not good.

Nik

On May 27, 8:58 pm, "George (the other one)"
<georgecorri...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

1. Having your calendar display tasks that are assigned to you will probably be ready in 3-4 weeks.  

2. I might be able to have assigned tasks show up in your custom smart queues around this time as well.  What makes this complicated is that you have different "permissions" on tasks assigned to you.  Right now you can edit any items that show up in a Smart Queue.  But with the current Assignments queue you're only allowed to comment on your specific assignment or mark it complete.  Combining assignments into smart queues means it has to distinguish between to two different types of tasks in the smart queue to keep you from editing tasks assigned to you.  

3. Combining "Friend Queues" and "My Queues" has deep technical implications and would require overhauling a large portion of the database.  This will require a significant amount of work and I'm not ready to give any estimate on when something like this might happen.  

-Cameron

[lue]

That sounds great!

Looking forward to it. This will help our company a lot.

Nice weekend,

Stefan

On May 28, 6:05 pm, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> 1. Having your calendar display tasks that are assigned to you will probably
> be ready in 3-4 weeks.
>
> 2. I might be able to have assigned tasks show up in your custom smart
> queues around this time as well.  What makes this complicated is that you
> have different "permissions" on tasks assigned to you.  Right now you can
> edit any items that show up in a Smart Queue.  But with the current
> Assignments queue you're only allowed to comment on your specific assignment
> or mark it complete.  Combining assignments into smart queues means it has
> to distinguish between to two different types of tasks in the smart queue to
> keep you from editing tasks assigned to you.
>
> 3. Combining "Friend Queues" and "My Queues" has deep technical implications
> and would require overhauling a large portion of the database.  This will
> require a significant amount of work and I'm not ready to give any estimate
> on when something like this might happen.
>
> -Cameron
>

> > <gqueues%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com<gqueues%252Buns...@googlegroups.com>>

[George (the other one)]

Hey Cameron thanks for all the specifics!

As far as 1. - all I can say is woohoooo! Thats awesome. Thanks so
much.

I hear the pain on 3, I could see why it could cause a major rewrite.
And maybe this has been said by the previous authors and better - but
this is what I envision (a vision uncluttered by technical knowhow or
the constraints of reality :-)

When one creates a task list - it exists somewhere in the cloud. That
list only has knowledge of its content and order (ie what tasks are
sub to what tasks) AND who it is shared with.

If it is private, it is really just the same as it being shared with
the owner.

If it is public, then it is shared with several owners.

Then the organization of how this is displayed is kept in the
individuals account - so one person might have the project under Work/
Stuff I owe George/Project A, someone else for their account might
have External Projects/Client1 Projects/Project A.

With that the issue of 2 kind of goes away - ie the smart queues just
work on the everything that you have, they don't make a distinction
whether the project you are looking at is shared just with you, or
shared with you and lots of other folk.

I'm looking forward to Google buying you, making you rich and giving
you tons of development talent so that you at least contemplate some
of these issues without getting over run!

Thanks again for the responsiveness and the direct answers - it really
is very much appreciated.

Cheers



On May 28, 9:05 am, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

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[Jesse]

Thanks for the update Cameron! This group seems to be really active
lately and it must be inundating so I appreciate the responses.

[Pat Vachon]

Hi Cameron,

I've read the entire post and agree completely. I'm a the Director of
Operations of a 50 employee company and gqueues has ridiculous
potential. The ease of use to add, manage, collaborate tasks is
astonishing. Perfect example of the KISS principle. Now, the only
thing that I have major issue with is the Calendar integration.

With this capability I can see users able to see how one's scheduled
meetings can coincide with one's to do list. A create gqueue tasks
with specific date, time and duration such that I know it will or will
not fit in my calendar. There is nothing better that seeing in my own
calendar when I will have for time something spanning into two weeks
from now when the President asks me why something can or can't be done
by a certain time.

Cheers,

Pat

[George (the other one)]

Great point Pat. At the risk of overloading this thread, here is the
current use case challenge I have.

I'm in a partnership where we work on a bunch of discrete projects
typically lasting a couple of months or so.

I'm aided by a number of employees, but I don't have exclusive use of
those employees - my other partners leverage them as well.

As such we are set up for constantly stepping on each others toes -
and so have a fairly unproductive weekly meeting where we all chat
about what we are working on.

What I've done is set up a Smart Queue which looks for the tag
"Assigned to Peter" so when I check in with Peter I can see all the
stuff that he's working on for me. But. The trouble is what I want to
be able to do is see what Peter is working on for EVERYONE, not just
me.

The challenge is that even if I'm subscribed as a collaborators to my
other partners Queues - those Queues sit in the Friend Queue - and as
far as I can tell the Smart Queue can't pick up those. I'd like to be
able to create a "Peter's workload" list - as well as a "What George
and Peter are working on" list - that way I can spot conflicts and try
to manage stuff - especially if I could sort the list by "due date".
If I could do this then GQ would become THE central repository for
what is getting done around the office which would save a great deal
of time from wasted meetings and a great deal of frustrating when
things get double booked, as well as reduce Peters stress level a
whole lot.

Again, I appreciate this is perhaps in a different direction to where
Cameron initially set the vision, but I think our situation is not
unique and cross-resource visibility could show, in Pat's great words
"ridiculous potential"

Cheers
George

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

FYI - 

A person's assignments in GQueues now appear on their Google Calendar as well.  See my latest post for more details:

http://groups.google.com/group/gqueues/browse_thread/thread/3c49ed150b545cf2

I realize there are more changes needed to make collaboration in GQueues even more powerful, but this is the first step.

-Cameron

[George (the other one)]

Woohooooo!!!! Fabulous!!!!

On Jun 25, 1:02 pm, "Cameron (GQueues Team)" <came...@gqueues.com>
wrote:

> FYI -
>
> A person's assignments in GQueues now appear on their Google Calendar as

> well.  See my latest post for more details:http://groups.google.com/group/gqueues/browse_thread/thread/3c49ed150...

>
> I realize there are more changes needed to make collaboration in GQueues
> even more powerful, but this is the first step.
>
> -Cameron
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Cameron (GQueues Team) <
>
>
>
> came...@gqueues.com> wrote:
> > 1. Having your calendar display tasks that are assigned to you will
> > probably be ready in 3-4 weeks.
>
> > 2. I might be able to have assigned tasks show up in your custom smart
> > queues around this time as well.  What makes this complicated is that you
> > have different "permissions" on tasks assigned to you.  Right now you can
> > edit any items that show up in a Smart Queue.  But with the current
> > Assignments queue you're only allowed to comment on your specific assignment
> > or mark it complete.  Combining assignments into smart queues means it has
> > to distinguish between to two different types of tasks in the smart queue to
> > keep you from editing tasks assigned to you.
>
> > 3. Combining "Friend Queues" and "My Queues" has deep technical
> > implications and would require overhauling a large portion of the database.
> >  This will require a significant amount of work and I'm not ready to give
> > any estimate on when something like this might happen.
>
> > -Cameron
>

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