RE: A first impressions with using MrProject

> >> 3. Perhaps should there be a quicker way to assign a ressource to the
> >task ?
> >> Not via task properties, but instead right from the pup-up menu ? 
> >
> >A toolbar button and menu item that brings up the task dialog with the
> >resource page active could make it easier. Having a list of resources in
> >a popup menu would not be feasible though, considering that the list
> >could be huge.
> 
> You  are probably right. Didn't filed. 

I'll file my suggestion so I don't forget :)

> >> 4. You cannot set task to start from random moment in time. It would
> >be
> >> great, if one could move the task with mouse (perhaps with middle
> >button ?)
> >> in time to start earlier or later. At the moment I would need to put
> >> addtional task in front of it and sent the task to depend on it and
> >set a
> >> lag between end and start. Not a very good way. 
> >
> >You can do it, using constraints, which you can set in the task view. I
> >agree that we need a better UI for it though. It has been planned for a
> >while.
> 
> Which version you are talking about? 0.8pre ? 

It has been implemented since the dawn of time, or at least from 0.6 :)
(Although with a less than optimal UI...)

> >> 5. If you have a big task and many subtasks under it and if you have
> >some
> >> external task, which depend for one of the subtask to finish to start,
> >and
> >> when you collapse the main task, so that you do not see subtasks
> >anymore,
> >> the dependency link is not no longer displayed in Gantt graph. 
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to still display the link in some form to
> >indicate that
> >> the other task depends on the big task ?
> >
> >Good idea, we need to come up with how to visualize it. Any ideas?
> 
> Filed as enhancement. My idea is that the link could be displayed in
> collapsed view in the same place as in expanded view ? If the subtask
> finishes in the middle of the super-task (is this a correct name for the big
> task, which "covers" the other sub-tasks ?) the link would come out from the
> middle of the big task and go to the other task. 
> 
> Or should I make a drawing to explain myself better ? 

Ah, I think I like this. What do other people think, does it sound like
a good solution?

Richard
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