Client tool/interface and methods to allow status updates and appending notes
Submitted by Lincoln Phipps
Link to original bug (#137009)
Description
Creating a project plan is fine but then getting the task percentage completed updated is tedious. I'm suggesting a cut-down mode (it may even be the existing planner application but with a different menu/ui skin) which allows team members to update completed statuses for tasks and to APPEND task and resource notes (note append not write).
The project manager can then go away and when they come back they are able to see what the updated completion status of tasks and commit those.
Imagine a really simple GUI which has the tasks (by resource or similar) and the tumbler as well as a Append Note... button and thats all.
Further enhancements would be to actually make the main project file read-only and have the clients write to a separate "delta" file e.g.,
myproject.mrplanner group:read
\updates\myproject.<resource>
.mrplannerstatus group:read/write
The update could also be on file or emailed thus allowing for real-time or email based collaboration or updates. We may also introduce a simple data check of some kind (e.g. MD5 or SHA with a shared secret).
Well thats the thought at this time.