in-task checklists

[mitch.s]

this doesn't apply to trivial notes like : 'Shot started', 'Good job!' or 'You're fired', ...

 

Notes are really useful because they contain the description of specific retakes: 'Evenly space edges on fingers', 'add loop in elbows', 'Setup Reference contains keys on eyes', ... Several retakes may also be grouped in one note.

This is why it would be useful to have a status on notes so that a resource/supervisor can see what retakes are done, are in progress or still need to be done. Filtering on those stati would be very helpful

 

Maybe you have a different idea on how to implement retakes (description and follow up throughout the versions). If you do, we'd like to know how

One thing is for sure the description and status of a specific retake (not just a version) must be clearly visible and easily queryable.

Forgetting a retake because it wasn't clearly visible (between all other notes) or queryable is not an option.

[Carl Claesson]

This is something we have on our roadmap. Not necessary implemented as statuses, but more like a checklist attached to a note. 

 

As you say, supervisors want to add things that the artist should do to make the note complete. So instead of having a status that you change, the supervisor can add a checklist when creating the note and any recipient of the note have the ability to check things of the list. When all items have been checked, the note is shown as completed.

 

Of course, notes with unfinished checklist items should be queryable from notes and in the inbox.

 

Exactly how this will work is not fully decided yet and any feedback on the matter is appreciated.

 

 

Cheers,

Carl

[mitch.s]

This is something we have on our roadmap. Not necessary implemented as statuses, but more like a checklist attached to a note.

 

 

Right.

 

We see notes as subtasks for tasks.

The main difference may be that subtasks can't be planned in advance while tasks can.

 

Differentiating dones and todos in the subtasks(retakes) is very important. (artists don't like searching for retakes, it has to be 'in your face')

At CC we we work with color coding. Todo retakes are marked red, unformatted ones are done.

The method is very primitive but works fine. Even on a spreadsheet cluttered with retakes, the todo's are detected 'at a glance' !

This is one of the reasons I asked for rich text notes in another thread on this forum (as a workaround for notes with status).

 

The challenge is to streamline the whole thing.

[giovani.meneghel]

Hi,

 

We are very interested in this feature as well.

Specially if supervisors could create checklists for themselves, in each project they are coordinating.

Will it be possible?

 

Thanks,

 

Giovani.

[Fredrik Limsater]

We are doing a prototype of checklists now, should have some more feedback about this in the coming weeks. We will consider all feedback we get here in our forum. But our goal is that checklists should work both for a supervisor to add to notes/feedback as a way of creating subtasks that's need to be completed (checked), and for any user in ftrack as a personal checklist.

 

Don't hesitate to give us more feedback and feature request on how this should work.

 

Cheers,

Fredrik

[giovani.meneghel]

About personal checklist, it could be presented to the user without loosing context. It would be great to navigate through tasks, shots, versions, projects, etc., while still showing the personal checklist somewhere on the screen, like something you can easily toggle on/off.

 

Anyway, having the checklist in the inbox, or in "My Tasks" pane somewhere, sounds it's going to get the job done.

[Jack]

Hello all,

 

It would be great to have a checklist tab (as illustrated in the attachment)

 

or

 

a note which can be pinned to the top that allows us to add a checklist.

 

This serves as a way for team members to further break down tasks, plan and report back progress.

 

It also allows for a more granular approach to task division and planning without creating numerous additional tasks.

 

The problem with just mentioning a list of things to do / correct / adjust in notes is that items can quickly get buried / separated or lost in a series of responses.

 

Thanks,

Jack

[Fredrik Limsater]

Hi Jack,

 

 

 

The problem with just mentioning a list of things to do / correct / adjust in notes is that items can quickly get buried / separated or lost in a series of responses.

 

Agree, we're working on adding checklists/todo's, and your attached screenshot is very close to what we're working on right now.

 

We have a similar discussion in this topic : http://forum.ftrack.com/index.php?/topic/24-status-on-notes/ (I will merge this topic with that one)

 

Thanks,

Fredrik

[Jack]

Hi Fredrik,

 

 

That's fantastic, good to know that something like this is already in the works.

 

Look forward to it's release.

 

 

Thanks,

Jack

[Remus Avram]

Hello guys,

 

I would like to ask you if there is any progress in adding checklists/todo's.

We are trying to find a workaround for subtasks and this procedure I think could work.

Please have a look at this topic too: http://forum.ftrack.com/index.php?/topic/315-subtask/

 

Thanks,

Remus

[Jack]

Hi Fredrik,

 

It's been a year since we requested this. Any luck with progress on this?

 

Thanks,

Jack

[Fredrik Limsater]

Hello,
vote for this feature on our public roadmap: https://trello.com/c/uhDTwxtR

Cheers,
Fredrik

[Remus Avram]

Hello,
is this already implemented? I don't find any documentation how to use it.

Cheers,
Remus

[Remus Avram]

Hello,

the only documentation which I found is this: http://ftrack.rtd.ftrack.com/en/stable/using/communicating/using_notes.html#using-communicating-using-notes-note-completion. But this is a note completion, not a checklist / todo list.

Does anybody know if the checklist / todo list was implemented?

[Mattias Lagergren]

Remus, no checklist/todos has been implemented - the closes thing is what you've found regarding note completion. But this more related to feedback and seeing if it has been addressed or not

[Remus Avram]

Thanks @Mattias Lagergren for your quick answer! The checklists are useful for us for the big shows.

[Remus Avram]

Hi all,

is there any update regarding this?

This will help a lot our production to keep all the tasks and the information in one place, Ftrack.

[JPrydz]

Hi,

Sorry, but this has not been implemented yet.

/Johan

[Remus Avram]

21 hours ago, JPrydz said:

Hi,

Sorry, but this has not been implemented yet.

/Johan

Hi Johan, is there any plan to implement this soon?

[Erik]

This is one of the most sought after features here as well.

[JPrydz]

Hi,

When this feature was tackled, it was implemented according to the feedback given at the time.
We are looking at improvements, but can't say for sure when we will see it in the product.

Regards,
Johan

[Amy Baldwin]

On 3/6/2019 at 10:29 AM, JPrydz said:

Hi,

When this feature was tackled, it was implemented according to the feedback given at the time.
We are looking at improvements, but can't say for sure when we will see it in the product.

Regards,
Johan

Hey,

 

Just jumping on this old post really! We're in need of this feature urgently, the current solution of mark completed isn't enough sadly as we have a number of tasks we'd like put into one note for the checklist. Is there scope for this to be implemented soon please?

[Andrew Lawrence]

Hi @Amy Baldwin

Our sincere apologies for the delayed response here. We have discussed checklists various times previously and it is definitely something that we want to do, we just need to figure out how they should be tracked and how they work together with completable notes and regular tasks.

One solution we've been discussing here could be to support checklists within markdown. We're working on updating our markdown implementation across various places in the app but current checklists via markdown isn't something that works today. This isn't an ideal solution for us, since checklists within markdown is just a string and isn't tracked in any official capacity, though we understand for quick sub-tasks within a note this may be okay. 

We'd love to learn a bit more about your specific use-case and if the above solution may be suitable, or if you'd require something more robust (a-la official sub tasks). We'd also like to understand the impact this has on your production (i.e is this stopping certain teams from successfully tracking the things they want to) 

Please let us know and we'll make sure we get your specific use-case and support added to our internal request internally. 

Cheers,
Andrew

[Amy Baldwin]

8 hours ago, Andrew Lawrence said:

Hi @Amy Baldwin

Our sincere apologies for the delayed response here. We have discussed checklists various times previously and it is definitely something that we want to do, we just need to figure out how they should be tracked and how they work together with completable notes and regular tasks.

One solution we've been discussing here could be to support checklists within markdown. We're working on updating our markdown implementation across various places in the app but current checklists via markdown isn't something that works today. This isn't an ideal solution for us, since checklists within markdown is just a string and isn't tracked in any official capacity, though we understand for quick sub-tasks within a note this may be okay. 

We'd love to learn a bit more about your specific use-case and if the above solution may be suitable, or if you'd require something more robust (a-la official sub tasks). We'd also like to understand the impact this has on your production (i.e is this stopping certain teams from successfully tracking the things they want to) 

Please let us know and we'll make sure we get your specific use-case and support added to our internal request internally. 

Cheers,
Andrew

Hey Andrew,

No problem! So on our VFX comp tasks, we have various notes that the artist needs to achieve before publishing the next version. We'd like a way to be able to list those notes inside one singular note, but as a checklist. We would ideally do this via a button within the note options (similar to image B below in ClickUp). I don't believe sub-tasks are the way forward for us, as notes can be quite lengthy. The impact is that artists aren't able to effectively track what has and hasn't been done, this is concerning as the very nature of VFX involves artist sharing - so when a new artist picks up a shot, it's important for the information to be there.

Image A - We'd like something like this, a simple option to insert checklist items to any note in addition to the main note completion

Image B - example of how to insert a checklist into a note on ClickUp

Image C - Anyone is able to mark as complete, ideally an audit shows who ticked it similar to what you currently have in the 'completable notes' feature

[Andrew Lawrence]

Hi @Amy Baldwin
Thanks so much for elaborating on this, it's great to see your use case and that makes total sense. It seems like a solution then within markdown of the note body could work here since you want to keep that within the note itself. That said, if we do this within markdown there would be no permission checks / histroy, so a more official checklist implementation (a la Clickup / Notion) would be better.

I've scoped out this request internally with our team, and thanks so much for helping to contribute to that. While I can't give an exact ETA at this time don't hesitate to reach out to our team if you'd like to discuss this in more detail for your specific needs. 

Cheers,

Andrew