Comments on: EndUserSharePoint.com: Extending Issues and Tasks: Part 3

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[...] parts 1, 2, and 3, you built a slick-looking extension of SharePoint’s Tasks and Issues. If you let the [...]

By: Amita

Amita — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:15:58 +0000

I’m trying to figure out what I did wrong here. I closed out an issue that still had an open task related to and didn’t get the error message. Did I miss something?

-aps

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Links (10/8/2008) « Steve Pietrek - Everything SharePoint — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:27:06 +0000

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By: AutoSponge

AutoSponge — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:05:11 +0000

Mark,

Thanks, that’s already on the agenda for the closing article, “I want to add a link to the DispForm.aspx page that starts a new Task related to the Issue being displayed.”

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:28:59 +0000

The whole thing is very impressive and clever, and also very complex! This is Microsoft’s fault, not yours.

In response to the first part of this, someone referenced Bamboo’s List Integrity web part. I think there is a use case that Bamboo picked up on that your example does not: when am I going to add a task for an issue? When I am looking at an issue.

What you really need is a way, when a user is looking at an issue in a list/view or in the display form for an issue, to quickly add a task for that issue, with the issue lookup field prepopulated in the task. If I have, say, 1,000 issues in my list (and half are closed), under your approach each time I create a task I have to cull through the list of issues to find the one I want, even though half are closed. Better for me to be looking at a list of open, relevant issues and then decide to add a task for one of those, with the issue prepopulated.

Can you do that in part 4?