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Hello Matthew,
Some workflow software tools generate a visualisation of a workflow/thread; to make it easier to understand, or to allow for intuitive editing (e.g.: drag the box in the flow chart, instead of editing a long list of conditionally linked tasks). Could we ever see a feature like this in Xplan Tasks?
Awesome idea and question jeremy.gorniak
In the workflow research we heard a number of clients interested in something like this or we heard of friction points that could perhaps be solved by visualising the workflow. In my view there's 2 elements to it as you kind of alluded to:
- Visualising the workflow: so you can quickly see and understand the flow of the process, where you are at, what comes next etc. We would be aiming to include something like this when we look at moderning the workflow layers in Xplan. It then could be incorporated back into Tasks so you can find out where you are at and see that whole process right when you need it.
- Building workflow: Possibly, this one we see coming later and we also think there's a number of ways you could go about solving this - a kind of drag and drop flowchart may be one way, but there could be others which we'd need to explore but still a ways away at this stage.
So in short, yes something like this is part of our future thinking for workflows at least in terms of helping view and follow them :)
- Visualising the workflow: so you can quickly see and understand the flow of the process, where you are at, what comes next etc. We would be aiming to include something like this when we look at moderning the workflow layers in Xplan. It then could be incorporated back into Tasks so you can find out where you are at and see that whole process right when you need it.
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