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Manage Tasks

1. To access Knowify’s project management features, go to the “Contract Jobs” Module.Contract Jobs Icon

2. While in the “Contract Jobs” module, click on the name of a job you want to manage.screenshot-secure.knowify.com 2015-07-07 10-19-07

3. Click on the “Plan & Track” tab to manage your tasks or work orders.screenshot-secure.knowify.com 2015-07-07 10-50-56

4. The page is divided by the phases and tasks in your project plan. You can expand each phase by clicking on the “+” sign on the blue tab. Now you can see how the phase breaks down between materials, tasks, and resources.Plus Sign Milestone

5. You can mark whether a task was completed or if a resource performed the task by clicking “Assigned” and changing it to completed. The statuses of your tasks will update based on your Tasks module. Tasks 1

6. As time is put into the time-tracker module, the bars will fill up indicating how much time the employee has spent on the task or phase. See the tutorials on Tracking Time to learn more about this.Resources Milestones

7. To manage dependencies between tasks, click the “link” icon on a task to link its start or finish to the start of a previous task. If task B is dependent on task A, when task A is completed, employees who are on task B will receive email alerts indicating their task is now active.Task Dependencies

In the event you would like to track the progress of all of your pending and active tasks in list form, you may open the Contact Jobs module and select the ‘Manage Tasks’ tab.Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 9.22.57 AM

From here, you will see all of your tasks that have not been activated yet. Click the megaphone icon to make the milestone active. Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 9.24.54 AM

To view a list of your active tasks, hit the checkbox next to ‘Show active only’. Similarly, you may populate a list to show a history of your completed tasks, or a list of tasks related to you. For now, we will check out active tasks to see which tasks should be marked complete.Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 9.31.27 AMScreen Shot 2016-04-04 at 9.25.48 AM

The active task list allows me to edit or complete a task. To mark it complete, hit the green check icon to the right. To edit this particular task, click the blue pencil/paper icon. This will popup the screen below to edit as necessary.Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 9.26.06 AM