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Tasks view

Tasks view allows creating and manipulating tasks within your 4gl project. If necessary, these tasks can be linked to a pieces of your source code.

All the tasks are organized in a table:

In the Tasks view, you can add, edit, and remove tasks.

All the task have priority - is indicated with an icon:

blank for regular tasks,

for high-priority tasks, and

for low-priority tasks.

Tasks view toolbar

These options are available from the drop-down menu of the Tasks view:

Show	allows choosing what tasks will be shown in the view all of them or only those added to TODo lists:
Group by	groups tasks in the view by type or by name
Sort by	allows sorting bookmarks by one of the columns in the Tasks table - Completion, Priority, Description, Resource, Path, Location, or Type: Click here to see some details and compare: When tasks are sorted, you can see an arrow in the table header which can be used to additionally sort tasks in the ascending or descending order: The Ascending option allows sorting tasks within the column in the ascending or descending order.
New Tasks View	opens a new Tasks view (you can open as many of them as you need):
Configure Contents...	opens the Configure Contents window: By default, the Show all items option is checked.
Configure Columns...	opens the Configure Columns window where you specify what columns are displayed in the view and in what order: Click here to compare:

From the context menu of the Tasks view, you can perform these actions:

Copy	copies the data from the selected task to the clipboard
Delete	deletes the selected task (= removes it from both the view and the source file). LyciaStudio needs your confirmation before deleting the task:
Select All	selects all the tasks in the view
Show In	allows opening the selected bookmark in the Properties view or in the system explorer:
Add Task...	opens a wizard for creating a new task:
Delete Completed Task	deletes all the completed tasks from the view (after their status is changed to complete)
Mark Completed	changes the status of the selected task to complete
New Task From Marker...	opens the wizard for adding tasks from the repository:
Properties	opens the Properties window for the selected task: