exo-codefest/2014-team-e

Codefest 2014 team A repositoryE

Codefest 2014 team E repository

The team E

TEAM MEMBER	EXO TEAM
Tran The Trong	PT
Vu Viet Phuong	PT
Tran Tra Giang	DOC
Nguyen The Tuyen	PT

How to build

git clone [email protected]:exo-codefest/2014-team-E.git
cd 2014-team-E
mvn clean install

What's MasterTask?

With the aim of making easy for managing your jobs, our team would like to introduce MasterTask - a friendly and powerful task management tool. Even you are good at technique or not, this app is totally in your hands! Use this app to control projects and their relevant tasks, then share with your group - so simple but effective with MasterTask!

Overview of MasterTask

Because of limitation to time (2 days for app development) and members (maximum 4 members/team) as suggested by eXo Jury, our team decided to finish some main points of our app, and next will be promising features and of course a cool User Interface from BD Team. See the table to know which you can play now, as well more features that will be introduced soon.

1	Creating a new project	18	Updating into Activity Stream
2	Editing a project	19	Setting due date for a task
3	Deleting a project	20	Add Repeat options for a task
5	Sharing a projects with groups	21	Making your tasks management more productive by sending timely reminders via notification and email
6	Sorting projects by 2 tabs	22	Adding description for a task
7	Filtering projects by Project Name and Description	23	Adding subtasks to a task
8	Managing tasks of projects by Dashboard	24	Uploading a file into a task
9	Adding a task to project	25	Inviting specific users via email
10	Editing a task	26	Adding/Editing description with CKEditor
11	Removing a task or all tasks at one time	27	Inline editing title and description
12	Updating status for a specific task	28	Synchronizing between Calendar and MasterTask
13	Assigning a task	29	Creating tasks and notes remotely by email to [email protected]
14	Setting priority to one task	30	Quick adding a task right from Project Details view
15	Adding labels to a task	31	Adding Task Reporters to control progress more effectively
16	Filtering tasks by some criteria	32	Mention someone in title and description
17	Adding/Editing/Deleting a comment	33	Clean and very easy-to-use interface

References:

• Track issues, bugs and improvements for MasterTask, and give your expectations or any feedback at https://github.com/exo-codefest/2014-team-E/issues.

• See the following diagram to understand our plan for MasterTask:

How to use?

If you are not familiar with adding an app to a page, do as follows to access MasterTask:

1. Open the eXo Platform link of 4.1-M2-codefest-team_e on Acceptance (https://acceptance.exoplatform.org/).

2. Log in Intranet as admin account (for example default - username: gatein & password: gtn).

3. At the top administration bar, select Administration --> Applications.

4. Click Import Applications button, then click OK in the confirmation message to import all gadgets and portlets.

5. Click eXo brand icon at the top left corner to come back to the Intranet homepage.

6. At the top administration bar, click Edit --> Page --> Add Page to create a page where MasterTask will be stored.

7. Enter Node Name, for example page1, then click Next.

8. Select Empty Layout, and click Next.

9. In Page Editor --> Applications tab, scroll to find the name of MasterTask - team-e-addon-webapp.

10. Click team-e-addon-webapp to see the name of our app: MasterTask.

11. Drag MasterTask app from Page Editor and drop it into Page Layout.

    

12. Click to accept these changes. You will be redirected to the page that contains MasterTask. In this case, it will be: http://codefest-4.1-m2-codefest-team_e.acceptance5.exoplatform.org/portal/intranet/home/page1. Now, you can enjoy MasterTask!

Creating a new project

1. Access the MasterTask app.

   A list of projects will be displayed. If you have no project, there will be a message: No project is available, please create one!.

2. Click Create new project button at the bottom.

   

3. Enter Project name (mandatory) and Description for your project.

4. Share your project with a group by clicking the down-arrow icon of Shared Groups, then click Add. This means members of the shared groups can work on that project in the Shared Projects tab.

   • Repeat this step if you want to shared with many groups.

   • Click next to each selected group if you don't want to share with that group anymore.

5. Click Create button to finish.

Sorting your projects

To find your needed projects quickly, click either of tabs:

• My Projects: Lists projects that are created by yourself.

  
  • Here, you can make any changes to your desires or delete your own projects.

• Shared Projects: Lists projects that another shared with groups where you are member.

  

  Here, you can:

  • See information of shared projects, including: Project Name, Description, Owners and Members.

  • View details of shared projects, and can do actions regarding to tasks of that project (for example, creating new, editing, or deleting, commenting).

  • However, you have no right to make changes on information of the shared projects themselves or delete them.

Filtering projects

After sorting your projects by either of above tabs (My Projects & Shared Projects), you may still find difficult to find exactly your projects because of so many. In this case, you can continue filter your project by name or description from the list of selected tab as follows:

1. Type key words into the mini filter form.

   

2. Hit Enter key or click to perform filtering.

The projects that match with your input will be listed in the selected tab.

Editing a project

1. In the list of projects, click corresponding to the project you want to edit. The Edit project form with the project information is displayed at the bottom of the projects list.

   

2. Make changes to your desires, then click Update to finish or Cancel to delete your updates.

Deleting a project

In the list of projects, simply click to delete a project.

Managing project tasks

A project can be considered to represent a team, and in each project, team members can manage their tasks easily and simply. By clicking a specific project, you will be redirected to its details as follows:

Here you can:

• See all tasks of this project. If this project does not have any task, one message will be shown: "No task is available, please create one!".

• The tasks that have been resolved or unresolved or refused are displayed with a strike-through.

• Perform quick actions on each specific task (setting priority, updating status, assigning to one member under the shared groups of a project) by selecting from the drop-down menu. For example, to set a new priority, hover your cursor over the current level in Priority column, then select another from the drop-down menu.

  

Using My Dashboard

MasterTask allows you to access tasks assigned to you quickly in My Dashboard. Click to be redirected to My Dashboard.

Here, you can see the current status of tasks assigned to you and change status by dragging and dropping one task between column. Click the Projects text on the breadcrumb to come back to main screen of projects.

Filtering and searching tasks

In the list of tasks, MasterTask allows you to filter your search results by Status and Priority and search for your desired tasks by title quickly.

Creating a new task

1. Click the project to which you want to add a new task. You will be redirected to details panel of the project as above.

2. Put your cursor into the Quick Add form, then type the task title and hit Enter key.

   

   Your newly created task will be updated into the list of tasks at the bottom.

Deleting a task

• Simply tick the checkbox corresponding to task you want to delete, then click Delete button at the left bottom.

• Delete multiple tasks at one time by ticking relevant checkboxes, then click Delete button.

• Delete all tasks of the project at one time by ticking the first checkbox next to Task.

Viewing task details

In the list of tasks, simply click one task you want to view. Here you will see all information of the task, including: Title of task, Status, Reporter, Created time, Priority, Assignee, Label, and Comments.

Editing a task

As stated above, some information of a task can be directly changed into the Tasks View panel, including: setting priority, updating status, and assigning. Besides, to make more changes, you can edit in the Details view of each task as follows:

1. Click one task to open the Task Details view.

   

2. Click to open the Edit form.

   

3. Add more details, or make changes on fields you like, including:

• Title: Changes title if you like.

• Priority: Clicks the down-arrow icon to select a priority level for your task. Currently, there are 4 levels: BLOCKER, MAJOR, MINOR and UNDEFINED. If you don't set priority, the default value will be UNDEFINED.

  • Status: Clicks the down-arrow icon to update status for your task. Currently, there are 4 types: OPEN, IN PROGRESS, RESOLVED, REFUSED, in which OPEN is set for Status by default.

• Assignee: Clicks the down-arrow icon to assign your task to one user. Remember that, only users who are in the Shared Groups of the project are listed in the drop-down menu. This means that you can only assign this task to one user who belongs to the group with the project has shared.

• Label: Adds labels to note your task, then click Add button or hit Enter key. The newly created label will be updated right above the Add Label form. Click x next to a label to remove it.

Finally, click Update button to finish your changes, or Cancel to exit the Edit Task form without changes.

Adding comment to a task

1. Click one task to open the Task Details view.

2. At the bottom of this view, enter your comment to the text box, then click Comment button.

3. Click to edit your comment, or to remove it.

2014-team-e's Issues

Empty Project

Change the message "There are no project of your account, please create one!" into "No project is available, please create one!*

Not see descriptions of project when selecting a specific project

Need to see the full description of a specific project when clicking it. See bug image

Filter tasks by Priority/Status dosen't take Current Project into account

In the task list of a project page, doing filter tasks by Priority/Status doesn't take the current project into account. Instead, it finds and returns matched tasks for ALL projects

Add red asterisk (*) next to name field of Projects and tasks

Label of task

Width of text form is so long.
Change title: Input then click add for new label --> Type label here.
Add : to Label field

Create new project is not shown again after clicking Cancel button

Change status: INPROGRESS into IN PROGRESS

Empty label of task is shown

When put the cursor into the Task Input, and no type any character.
Then, hit Enter. The empty task is created. SEe illustration

Delete Project: Should have confirmation for delete action

When click the Delete icon of project, one confirmation message should be displayed to avoid misunderstanding: Are you sure you want to delete this project?

Error message in a project

When clicking a project that does not include any task, the message below is not correct:There are no project of your account, please create one! --> No task is available, please create one!

Display of name and description is not limited

Need to limit the display of name to 20 character with ... if they are longer.
And display of description is limited to 30 characters with separate lines and ....