Task Hierarchy

Tasks are useful by themselves but they are more useful when multiple tasks are related. Each task can have subtasks associated with them allowing a tree structure to be built. This is useful for grouping things together. For example, you can find the positions within the club based on the top level Club task as shown here (for example purposes only).

• Club (top level)
  • President
  • Secretary
  • Fair Director
  • Membership committee
  • Club Meetings

The person assigned to a task would be associated with that task so there would be a single person assigned as President and Secretary. There may be multiple people on a committee and possibly Fair Director.

A hierarchy can also be handy for partition a task into subtasks to make them easier to manage, assign and track. For example:

• Update fair documentation
  • Edit Student pages
  • Edit Teacher pages
• Update sponsorship support
  • Edit sponsorship pages
  • Contact existing sponsors
  • Solicit new sponsors

These tasks may have references to pages on this website. In the case of the Edit pages tasks, the pages might be ones to be edits. The sponsor tasks may reference Organization nodes that would have contact information in them.

Top Level Tasks

It is possible to mark a task as a Top Level task that will show up in a special list of top level tasks. In general, the number of top level tasks should be kept to a minimum. It is also possible to have a task that does not connect to these or any other tasks. Likewise, it is possible to relate a task to more than one other task as well. The Top Level task list is a menu item under Club/Tasks on the main menu above.

In general, you can find tasks by drilling down from the top level.