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Recurring Tasks

Added by Barry Hartwell about 8 years ago

Is the ability to create a recurring task (Work Package) possible with versions 3 or 4? If not, will the functionality be there in a future release?


Replies (11)

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Igor Šovčík almost 7 years ago

Hi Barry,

did you find any solution over this functionality?

RE: RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Mark Fox almost 6 years ago

This would be really useful for certain system administration and accounting tasks.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Barry Hartwell over 5 years ago

I don’t recall getting this functionality I originally wanted to work for us in version 3 or above. Ultimately we made a decision to move to the hosted solution in hopes that this feature would eventually come to fruition. I don’t think it has yet unfortunately, so we implemented a workaround by setting up recurring tasks as a “Type”. We are currently running on OpenProject 7.1.0. Below are some screenshots of our implementation of “Recurring Tasks” as a ‘Type’. I hope this will help you get a better idea for implementing a solution in your own environment.

Added in ‘Work Package Type’ under Administration:

Implementation:

Let me know if you still have questions, i’ll see if i can answer them.

RE: RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by _ KUL over 5 years ago

At the moment the built-in (or pluggable) there is no solution in version 7?

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Paul Grimes over 5 years ago

This is something we would be very interested in.

Our use case for OpenProject is managing a multi-element radio-telescope. We have software and hardware development projects, ongoing regular maintenance tasks, and maintenance issues that all need to included in various subprojects.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Catherine G almost 5 years ago

Hello,
this feature would be also very interesting for us. Is there any news regarding this feature?

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Petar Enchev over 4 years ago

Hi,

I created the new type and now I am wondering if there is a way to set the recurring task to send a notification (reminder) each time when a specific date is close (e.g. 12th of October every year). Do you know how this can be accomplished.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Robin Wagner over 4 years ago

Hi Petar,

it is not possible to send out reminders automatically.

You can facilitate the "reopening" process by creating a custom action (available in the Enterprise Edition and Cloud Edition).

To do this, go to the administration and select "Custom actions".

You can then define a button which is shown for the recurring task and which triggers several updates at once.

For example you could change the status to "New", set an assignee and send a notification to a user all at once.

The button is then shown for the work packages which meet the defined conditions.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Radovan Semancik over 2 years ago

We would really love to see support for recurring tasks in OpenProject.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Skyler Beetle over 2 years ago

Hi Barry,

How did creating a new "type" for recurring tasks assist you in making these function like a traditional recurring task? Did you use new versions for each iteration of a recurring task? Is it still a wholly manual process in which you copy the previous recurring task?

Thanks for any advice!

Barry Hartwell wrote:

I don’t recall getting this functionality I originally wanted to work for us in version 3 or above. Ultimately we made a decision to move to the hosted solution in hopes that this feature would eventually come to fruition. I don’t think it has yet unfortunately, so we implemented a workaround by setting up recurring tasks as a “Type”. We are currently running on OpenProject 7.1.0. Below are some screenshots of our implementation of “Recurring Tasks” as a ‘Type’. I hope this will help you get a better idea for implementing a solution in your own environment.

Added in ‘Work Package Type’ under Administration:

Implementation:

Let me know if you still have questions, i’ll see if i can answer them.

RE: Recurring Tasks - Added by Max Mutzge over 2 years ago

Please find the feature request for this here: #29120

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