What to Expect from Upcoming DHTMLX To Do List
Our dedicated team of developers continues expanding the DHTMLX product portfolio with multifunctional JavaScript UI components and libraries for project management apps. Currently, the efforts are focused on developing a solution related to one of the most critical aspects of project management success — namely, task management.
Any project, at its core, is a set of small tasks, which should be clearly defined, organized in a well-structured way, prioritized, scheduled, and assigned to the right person — that’s basically what task management is all about.
Seems like a pretty solid chunk of work. Is there a simple but powerful tool for web developers and project managers to cover essential task management needs on a daily basis?
The upcoming DHTMLX JavaScript To Do List is the answer. This new JavaScript component will allow building intuitive and highly interactive to do lists, enabling end-users to organize their business processes in the most efficient way.
As this product is underway, we are still open to discussion on features that should be included in the final version. Feel free to express your opinion on currently planned features or offer your desired options in the Trello board.
In this article, we will consider the current set of features of our to do list widget as well as its integration capabilities with more advanced project management tools.
Features to be implemented in DHTMLX To Do List
Commonly, a to do list is a pretty simple task management concept, but it does not imply that it cannot offer much in terms of functionality. Our developers plan to implement a wide array of useful features to make DHTMLX To Do List an effective task management tool.
First of all, let us take a closer look at how the upcoming DHTMLX component will help you to organize your daily tasks and to interact with them:
- Some project tasks may seem too large and hardly comprehensible. Don’t worry, our widget will support a nesting feature, allowing you to break down massive tasks into chunks i.e. nested tasks with subtasks so they become much easier to accomplish.
- No matter how many tasks you have, our tool will help you to arrange them in a simple and scrollable list where items can be easily prioritized using drag and drop. Each list item (task) will come with a special checkbox for checking off completed tasks.
- If any task in your list requires the involvement of a particular team member, our tool will enable you to assign participants and specify start/due dates to keep control over the timeframe for each task and get the project over the finish line in time.
- You won’t need much time to clarify the status of tasks using a handy filtering capability. Moreover, users will be able to easily remove completed and outdated tasks from the list in no time.
- It won’t be a problem to implement our to do list in any web application, as it will be compatible with popular JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js).
Our developers pay special attention to adding various customization options to the DHTMLX To Do List component to make sure that you get all necessary instruments to adjust the appearance of the list to your liking. You will have a chance to change the checkbox controls, specify task shape and size, and apply custom colors to any element, and all other bells and whistles.
Integration with other DHTMLX Products
To do list functionality can be an extremely helpful addition to any advanced project management tool such as Gantt chart, as it allows breaking large project goals into clear, descriptive, daily step-by-step instructions (sortable task lists), giving you a better picture of how you are going to meet these project objectives.
That is why our development team came up with the idea to integrate the upcoming DHTMLX To Do List with our Gantt chart JS library, which has recently been updated to version 7.0.
With the to do list functionality added to this powerful Gantt Chart component, you will be able to display all small tasks that have to be completed alongside any important project milestones. Thus, it will be next to impossible for you to miss any significant detail or deadline within the project using this advanced combination of tools.
Moreover, we plan to integrate our to do list component with other DHTMLX JavaScript tools such as Scheduler or Kanban, thereby expanding your arsenal for building effective project management apps.
If you’ve become as excited as we are about the future DHTLX To Do list product, then you can submit a request for early access to a free 30-day trial version of this widget. Thus, you will be able to estimate the functional capabilities of this simple but robust tool and see how it fits your project.
