Dynamic Task List 2.1.1

Richard Wallace talks about Confluence
October 26, 2007

I'd like to announce the latest version of the new Dynamic Task List 2 plugin for Confluence. This release features over 30 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. You can find more details here, but here is a quick overview:

Much more robust handling of task names: improved support for all character sets and for wiki markup, such as links, in task names.
Permissions to modify a tasklist now match the permissions of the page the tasklist is on
Issues with task lists not working in IE 6 & 7 were fixed
User and group pickers for assigning users were added

UI Enhancements

In addition to the new features and bug fixes, the dynamic task list also got some UI attention. In particular, look for these improvements:

The gray border and background was lightened up to make the task lists not stand out as much from Confluence
New icons were added for all the sort options and an icon for the task priority was added to the main task line so users will no longer have to expand the task information to see task priorities
When dragging task items to reorder them there is now a visual que to the user about where the task will land
The way users work with task priorities also got an update, changing to a much clearer set of radio buttons.

Upgrading from original {dynamictasklist} and {tasklist}

The Dynamic Task List 2 is meant to completely replace the original {tasklist} and {dynamictasklist} macros. For anyone that had problems upgrading to Dynamic Task List 2 2.0, all reported issues have been fixed and others found and resolved as well. The upgrade process itself happens much more intuitively now. Instead of upgrading when a user first views a page that has one of the old versions of the macro on it, this new version of the plugin will only upgrade when a user manipulates the dynamic task list. Also, due to the improved task name handling, this version of the macro supports all the task names that previous versions did.

Let us know what you think!

In short, if you're using Confluence 2.5 or above, there should be no reason not to upgrade and pending feedback from the community this new Dynamic Task List will be bundled with the next major release of Confluence. So install it, try it out, and most importantly, let us know what you think!

Tags: confluence, dynamictasklist, plugin

7 Comment(s)

Sounds great! Unfortunately the latest version doesn't seem to show up in the plugin repository... Can this be fixed?

Thanks!

By Chris at October 29, 2007 8:01 AM

Sorry about that. We seem to be having some caching issues with the repository at the moment. We're working to track down where the issue lies. Until then, you can always use the plugin repository's upload tab to point it at the jars URL, http://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/confluence/dynamictasklist/jars/dynamictasklist2-2.1.1.jar

By Richard Wallace at October 31, 2007 11:57 AM

I think it's very good! Use it a lot.
I wish more of Confluence's data entry / page editing could be made 'live' via javascript like this.

I find the EDIT button and load times to actually get anything to show before I can start typing as a barrier to entry for people who are used to using MSWOrd

By mark at December 6, 2007 11:25 AM

Some of our tasks are quite wordy. Can you implement word wrapping in the next version?

By Greg at December 15, 2007 10:26 AM

Already done, Greg. Look for 2.2 soon.

By Jonathan at December 17, 2007 11:56 AM

Is there a sub-task feature in this new version? I already have page(s) with task/sub-tasks as heading and I would like to use something like {toc} inside the body to be turned into a tasklist for people assignments. Does it work in this new version?

By Appan at October 24, 2008 7:46 PM

I agree, can sub tasks be added? In addition, perhaps the title in one field and a description or explanation/steps involved in a separate field so that sorting can still be done in title.
A field for due date would be helpful

By Konnie McCauley at July 1, 2009 11:41 AM