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Add Group functionality to Phases in Planning page and Team Calendar


Robinson

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There are a couple of instances where it would be very useful to assign groups:

 

 

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1. On the Planning Page, when creating Phases, assigning groups from the drop down.

 

This would be a very useful way to streamline phase creation if a known group could be added I.E. "3D Team"

 

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2. On the Team Calendar View when adding resources to view artist workload and assign tasks

 

Currently each artist must be added individually to see availability and start assigning them tasks. 

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Adding to this, there are a lot of areas where Phase, Team, and Tasks seem like they should correlate and do not:

1. If a project team is defined by adding groups in the project outliner, then all tasks assignee drop downs will be restricted to membership of those groups - This is currently true.  However, if a group or subgroup is specifically assigned to a sequence or shot, the assignee drop down still queries every member of the team, regardless of group membership.  It would be nice if task assignee drop down to be restricted by the specific group assigned to sequence or shot. 

2. As mentioned in the opening post, it would be ideal to have groups in the phase drop down in the project tab of the planning page.  

3. Another useful feature would be to have users and groups added to a phase on the planning page show up in the team for that project automatically if they aren't already, as they are being assigned to the project in both cases. 

4. Related to the points above, if an artist is in a group that is assigned to a sequence, asset, or shot; that artist should only see subordinate tasks for that group assignment in the available tasks column of the Task Board. This could be an option on the phase allowing a Project Manager to define what tasks are visible to what groups by assignment and not just task type. Currently any task of the phase type will show up for any artist in the phase, regardless of group assignment.  

Functionally, what does assigning a group to a sequence or shot even do; as it doesn't seem to restrict or modify anything?

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On 7/7/2016 at 3:14 AM, Robinson said:

1. If a project team is defined by adding groups in the project outliner, then all tasks assignee drop downs will be restricted to membership of those groups - This is currently true.  However, if a group or subgroup is specifically assigned to a sequence or shot, the assignee drop down still queries every member of the team, regardless of group membership.  It would be nice if task assignee drop down to be restricted by the specific group assigned to sequence or shot. 

Yeah, this makes sense and we've for quite sometime wanted to circle back and improve the "User picker" to allow for this. Personally I'm leaning towards guiding the user, rather than restricting. So a new "User picker" would indicate which users are suitable for this task - but still allow you to pick anyone.

On 7/7/2016 at 3:14 AM, Robinson said:

2. As mentioned in the opening post, it would be ideal to have groups in the phase drop down in the project tab of the planning page.  

 

On 7/7/2016 at 3:14 AM, Robinson said:

3. Another useful feature would be to have users and groups added to a phase on the planning page show up in the team for that project automatically if they aren't already, as they are being assigned to the project in both cases. 

This is very interesting and while researching improvements to our Planning tools this is something that has come to my mind. What you do, and who you allocate in the planning section should be reflected on the Team page.

If you mean being able to allocate a group on a phase; it is also something that we're considering.

On 7/7/2016 at 3:14 AM, Robinson said:

4. Related to the points above, if an artist is in a group that is assigned to a sequence, asset, or shot; that artist should only see subordinate tasks for that group assignment in the available tasks column of the Task Board. This could be an option on the phase allowing a Project Manager to define what tasks are visible to what groups by assignment and not just task type. Currently any task of the phase type will show up for any artist in the phase, regardless of group assignment.  

 

On 7/7/2016 at 3:14 AM, Robinson said:

Functionally, what does assigning a group to a sequence or shot even do; as it doesn't seem to restrict or modify anything?

Also a valid point!

I think today it can be seen mostly as a visual communication.

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