HyperPlan is so great

Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 22, 2020 at 09:14 AM

Tomasz Raburski wrote:
>1. Is it possible to assign a task to several persons at the same time?

Currently, no. It is one of the more requested features. I’m still thinking about the way to best implement it.

For example. if a card has properties:
title=create website
assigned=alice,bob,charlie
effort=10

How do I show this in the cards view when assigned is laid out by rows? Show the card 3 times, one instance each in alice, bob and charlie rows? How do I visually show it is one card appearing in 3 places - an alias type icon (like a shortcut in Windows)? It isn’t really practical to do a Gantt type diagram in 2 dimensions. Especially given that text ranges might not be contiguous (e.g. alice, bob and charlie rows may not be next to each other).

When I click on one instance of the card, presumably it selects all instances?

What happens if they layout rows by assigned and columns by status and drag the ‘alice’ ‘create website’ card to the ‘done’ column. Do I also move the bob and charlie instances to ‘done’?

If I delete the ‘alice’ instance of the card, do I also delete bob and charlie? Or do I just remove alice from assigned on that card? Or give them the option?

If they total by effort, how do I split the effort between the 3 rows? Equally?

Do you know if any other software has done a good job of this?

>2. The creation of new entries is slow. You have to open the form and
>fill it. Can you do this in the table view (like in MS Excell)?

Lots of ways to add a card.

If you Tab on the last cell of the ‘Table’ pane it will add a new row with default values. No form window.

Or, if ‘view>icon overlay’ is checked, you can click the ‘+’ that appears when you hover over a cell.

Or you can use Ctrl+I(Windows)/Cmd+I (Mac) or the toolbar icon.

Or you can right click on a cell and choose ‘Add card’.

Note that you can also import a CSV file with your data.

See also ‘quick add’ here:
https://www.hyperplan.com/help/v210/tips.html

I hope that helps.

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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com