A counter of active tasks within each tab

[robert roszak]

Hi,

One of the nicest features that came with MLO4 was tabs. I must say I use it heavily, I have tabs for home, work, errands and other. I must say I'd like to be able to see a kind of counter of active tasks that remain in particular tab. F.e. there are tabs I don't check everyday and I happened to miss few tasks just because I forgot to check some of tabs. It could be in a form of number that appears next to the tab name, or it could be that particular tab's background would get red, that's indifferent to me.

Is there a similar feature?

[robert roszak]

Sorry to answer myself but it seems there's no such function for the time being,.. I created a feature suggestion and if you like the idea, you can vote for it here:

http://mlo.uservoice.com/forums/9235-general/suggestions/5347572-a-counter-of-active-tasks-in-other-tabs

Robert

[Lisa Stroyan]

I think for this to get support we need to understand it better. Tabs are not limited to active tasks, so how would this be defined for non-active tabs? For example, a planning tab, showing all Projects, or a completed-tasks view, or the Starred view -- should it show 30 tasks but only count the active ones? Can the user specify what to count? It's true that "Active" has special meaning in MLO, but only for tasks themselves, not for views or workspaces.

If really Active is all that is desired, this could be an option per workspace setup. A checkbox, "Count Active Tasks". This way at least we wouldn't be stuck with meaningless numbers on the other workspaces.

However, I'll warn you, I suspect this feature would require significant (though perhaps warranted) changes to the MLO underlying design, because Workspace updates are "pulled" as far as I know - they don't update contents until you activate them and even then when something changes in the background, they only refresh when you switch back to them or change a task while already in the tab. So a count wouldn't be update without a focus change AFAIK.

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[robert roszak]

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the answer. The way I see it is very simple - the number should indicate how many tasks is populated in particular view. If you set your workspace to show inactive or perhaps finished tasks, the number will show a pretty meaningless number. It'd be up to you. It only should draw your attention to check the tab because there is something to be seen. I don't see any reason to get into defining another active-inactive rules as the tabs themselves have this option perfectly solved. So the number should show only the nuimber of tasks currently populated in particular tab (and they are populated there according to rules you set in particular view..

But if tabs are being updated only when you activate them etc. I agree it might be hard to do.

Robert