Task Management From Within Your Feed (Weekly Release)

This week's release adds a new click available within your feed: Action Items!

Task Management Using Action Items

Users have been requesting a way to do quick task management within CubeTree since the very early site designs. We've been working with beta customers to come up with the right solution- and this week we are releasing the result, Action Items within your feed.

Action Items are not a replacement for Gantt charts.  They aren't are a way to lay out a 5 year plan. But they are a way to rapidly create and assign tasks, based on the events publishing in your feed.  The way you create Action Items will depend on the type of information in your feed.  Examples from beta customers included:

• "Our feed is mostly status updates from remote consultants .... we are using Action Items to easily record follow-up questions to be answered for customers."
• "We use the Wiki a lot, so most of our events are changes to Wiki pages.  We are using Action Items to record new work that needs to be done based on a Wiki page.  For example, starting to run a Google AdWords campaign recorded in our wiki marketing plan."
• "Most of our feed items are shared links: competitive intelligence, partner news, events from EMEA, etc.  The executive team is using Action Items to assign follow-up tasks for the content they want researched in more detail."

You can create Action Items in two places within CubeTree.  

1. First, you can simply click the Action Item link below a feed item.  
2. Or, you can go into your profile and click the Action Items add link in the left-hand menu.

When you create an Action Item you can add a description, assign it to yourself or another user in the network, and (optional) set a due date.  Once created, the Action Item will appear in the feed.  You can view a list of Action Items and their priority as part of each user's profile.

More Functionality in Your Wiki

Requests keep coming in with ideas about how we can further enhance CubeTree's Wiki feature.  This week we've added several new features which users have requested, including...

• A way to publish a Wiki page while limiting who can make changes to the page.  We've added the ability to lock your Wiki page so that no other users in the the network can make changes.
• An email notification the first time your Wiki page is viewed by another user.  Starting this week you will get an email the the first time another user views your Wiki page (this is the same email notification you may have gotten when a link you published is clicked).
• When you edit your Wiki pages you can now resize table cells by simply clicking on the table, then dragging the table cell to the size you want.
  

If you think of something that you think would make CubeTree more valuable for your team, send an email to support@cubetree.com or add your feature request at  http://cubetree.uservoice.com.