Model: EasyTask

ObjectGears system is provided with a ready-made tool for an easy task management having these features:

• Simple task management in smaller teams.
• Particular tasks are assigned to projects to which they belong. They are classified from the perspective of area they relate to, they are prioritized, marked with a requested deadline for resolving and assigned to a particular solver.
• The tasks go through certain statuses, that desscribe their life cycle phases (typically from creation, over approval for development, assignment to testing and closure).
• Files can be attached to the tasks.
• Email notification is sent to the assigned solver after each change in the task.
• Tasks can be filtered by various criterions.
• Access rights, screen look and other functionalities can be easily customized according to customer needs (ObjectGears platform advantage).
• Audit trail - all the changes can be traced back (who and when changed what).

Used objects

Object type	Object name	Object description
Class	Task	Records of tasks.
Class	Category	List of task categories
Class	Priority	List of task priorities
Class	Project	List of projects to which the tasks belong.
Class	Status	List of task statuses.
Class	Version	List of versions to which the tasks relate to.

Roles

Role	ObjectGears role	Use cases
User	EasyTask - User	Enter tasks and update them according to the work course, assign new solvers.
Administrator	EasyTask - Administrator	maintain list of projects, task statuses, priorities, versions etc.

 

Course of the task lifecycle is displayed in the following scheme.

 

Users can see overview of the tasks. They can filter tasks e.g. according to status, assigned person, project etc. Tasks, that are assigned to the current user or that are in a special status, are highlighted.

 

After displaying task detail the user can see history of the task, can display or append attachments etc.

 

After performing a change in the task an email notification is sent to the solver, to which the task is assigned, with stating basic task information and link to the task. Notification definition is shown in the following picture.

This model demonstrates basic ObjectGears functionalities and possibilities of a fast effective application development on this platform. Creation of this model is described in chapter Case studies.