What you need to know
My Tasks shows every you are on, from all your departments and all your work, as cards in five columns. It is the place to see what is yours, what each task waits for, and to move a task to another column. You do the rest of the work on the property or engagement the task is for, in its Work panel.
How to get here
In the left menu, open WorkFlow PM and select My Tasks. Everyone who is signed in has it, with or without a role in a department.
What is on this screen
At the top, a line counts your tasks and how many of them wait for something, for example 4 tasks · 2 waiting on something. With no tasks, it says Nothing is assigned to you. On the right, Show finished tasks adds the tasks you finished.
The columns, from left to right:
- BacklogParked: not to start yet, while the task is at this stage.
- Up nextNext in line to start.
- DoingBeing worked on. This is where the work happens.
- In reviewWaiting with a reviewer, off the doer’s active list.
- ClosedFinished as far as this task goes, at this stage.
An empty column says Nothing here. and stays on the board, so you can see that nothing is there.
Tasks under “Not on the board”
A task can show below the columns, under Not on the board. The screen says why: “Each of these tasks is at a stage its template gives no column, so the board cannot place it. Ask whoever keeps the template to fill in its grid.” The task is still yours, but you cannot move it from here. See A task is not on My Tasks.
What you can do here
- Move a task to another column: drag its card by the handle, or open its ⋮ and select the column. A finished task, with Show finished tasks ticked, moves the same way, and moving it out of Closed opens it again. See Move a task on My Tasks.
- Open a task's project: select the card's title.
- See your finished tasks: tick Show finished tasks.
- See your tasks in the order to pick them up, on your Dashboard: see Add Workflow widgets to your Dashboard.
- Do the rest of the work: open the property or engagement, and use its Work panel. See The Work panel on a record.
Good to know
A task someone added by hand to running work does not move from My Tasks. Move it in the Work panel on its property or engagement page.Who can do what here
Everyone who is signed in has My Tasks, and sees only the tasks they are on. A task you are not on is not here, even in your own department. To see a whole project, open it from one of its cards, or ask a manager for its link.
A contributor or a manager can move their tasks. The template can keep some moves for managers. A manager, or a person whose role allows it, can also override a move that a rule refuses, and give the reason. An executive observer only reads: a move says “You cannot move this task.”
Things to know
- The template decides each task's column at each stage, in its task grid. When a column holds more than one stage for a task, the board asks Where should it go? See How stages map to board columns.
- A stopped task leaves My Tasks. A manager brings it back on the project's page.
- The tasks of work whose property or engagement was deleted leave My Tasks until the record is restored. See A project or its tasks disappeared.
- The screen reads your tasks when it opens, and again after each move. To see a change made elsewhere, open it again.
- If your tasks cannot be read, a message at the bottom right says “Could not load your tasks.”, and the line at the top shows a dash.