Task Board v1.9.0 🎉

YouTube video for this release : https://youtu.be/_UYjZN1AVW8

Ill keep this description short, because there are too many features and enhancements to talk about in this version. But I think the section which will instantly grab your attention is the "Experimental Features section", especially the Unique Kanban Swimlanes feature. These were the reason why it took a little too long to release this version. Next version will be released sooner if there are no issues in the experimental features.

New Features 🎁

• Custom statuses : A new setting section to configure custom statues their mapped actions and other configurations. Or import from Tasks plugin. | #123
• All pending tasks : A new type of column, All pending tasks, to handle all the filtering part inside the Advanced column filtering. Now the things are possible with advanced column filters which were not possible earlier with other column types. | #614
• Duplicate boards to create new boards with ease. | #560
• A new setting to change the task card style : Emoji style and Bases card style. | #458
• A new way of selectively showing/hiding specific property inside the task card, inspired from bases design.
• Work limit : Set work limit to few column types and get alerts on exceeding the limit. | #395
• Two new settings to automatically populate completion date and cancelled date when task status changes. | #632
• Drag and re-arrange child tasks inside Add or Edit task modal to change the work order. | #465
• Log manager : Task Board will now store logs like errors and warnings in a log file for future debugging. And a button in setting to export the logs.
• Auto scan the externally modified files : Any files modified externally (sync or editor) will be automatically picked up.
• True Real-time mode : A new setting to select the scanning mode type. "Real-time" mode will scan changes instantly. | #619
• Follows the latest mobile UI design changes in Obsidian v1.11.0.

Bug Fixes 🛠

• When "Auto add unique id" is off, id property should be added to the task-note forcefully, when its linked to other tasks. | Fixed ✅
• The advanced filter popover is not showing up. (#624) | Fixed ✅
• The search child task input is not clearing up after selecting a child task in Add or Edit task modal. | Fixed ✅
• Task not found error was shown while drag and drop operation, but works normally. | Fixed ✅
• Drag and dropping task from "completed" type of column to other column is not working correctly. | Fixed ✅
• A lot of file triggers by Obsidian APIs is causing the whole application to freeze. | Fixed ✅
• Few of the properties in Dataview format are not working properly. | Fixed ✅
• Entering path to non-existing note and then clicking "Open note" button in Edit task modal produces error. (#567) | Fixed ✅
• Simply opening and closing the "Add or Edit task modal" shows an error in the developers console. (#555) | Fixed ✅
• Bug report is shown too many time, if there are multiple tasks with similar IDs. (#524) | Fixed ✅
• When two boards have same name, their configurations gets overwritten. (#595) | Fixed ✅
• If the setting "Folder for archived task notes" is empty, the board is not scanning anything. (#637) | Fixed ✅

Experimental Features 👨‍🔬

• Drag and drop cards from one column to another. | #5
• Manual order sorting : Change the order of the tasks with in a column by drag and drop. | #418
• Kanban Swimlanes with two different UI formats. | #592

Deprecated 🚮

• Following 4 settings has been removed :

  • Show header of the task card (showHeader)
  • Show footer of the task card (showFooter)
  • Show note name in task header (showFileNameInCard)
  • Customize card sections (cardSectionsVisibility)
    Instead of these multiple settings, now you have a single way to show/hide all the properties on the task card, including the checkbox.

• The setting "Auto scan the vault on Obsidian startup" (scanVaultAtStartup) has been removed. Instead a new setting has been added to auto scan all the files when Obsidian was inactive. Read the following : #641

• The setting "Real-time scanning" (realTimeScanning) has been removed. This setting has been replaced by a new setting, Scanning mode. Read this : #619

• As the column component will now going to have the lazy loading functionality by default, hence the "Enable lazy loading for Kanban view" (kanbanView) setting has been removed.

• This plugin will no longer going to store the simple reminder property added to notes (Obsi mobile app feature). Since, users can now easily create/convert any simple note into a task-note and add reminder to it, hence there is no need to manually add reminder property in the frontmatter. Hence, the Notes object is no longer supported inside the tasks cache.

Other Changes 🔎

• Major settings UI refactoring with new tabs for properties, inline-tasks, and custom status management
• Implemented queue-based file operations: added queue management system for bulk file operations (rename, delete, create) with progress notices to improve performance. | #501
• Lazy loading functionality in the task importer panel for map view to load the panel faster.
• Updated sanitizeTags function to take newTagsList instead of single newTag.
• Refactored card display system: removed deprecated header/footer/file name settings and replaced with flexible visiblePropertiesList array-based configuration.
• Settings has been further organized by adding two new tabs : Properties and Inline tasks. And "TB note" has been renamed to Task notes.
• Enhanced task status handling: refactored checkboxStateSwitcher to return status type information alongside symbol, enabling proper status-based date and title updates
• Improved code organization: refactored nested conditionals into switch statements, added comprehensive section comments, and reorganized enums for better maintainability
• Because of the new Custom statuses settings, the older setting, tasksPluginCustomStatuses has been removed and it will be combined into customStatuses.
• Fixed task ID logic: corrected applyIdToTaskItem to properly check for existing legacy IDs before generating new ones
• The setting Tasks cache file path, has been changed from drop-down to text input field with button.
• Update tasks from this file file menu option has been renamed to Scan tasks from this file

Milestone roadmap : https://github.com/tu2-atmanand/Task-Board/milestone/.
Development status : https://github.com/users/tu2-atmanand/projects/2/views/1

Contributions

• First phase of Drag and drop by @luisllamasbinaburo in #273
• Feature: Duplicate Current Board by @byq77 in https://github.com/tu2-atmanand/Task-Board/pull/566
• @kelno made their first contribution in https://github.com/tu2-atmanand/Task-Board/pull/626

A big shout-out to the following contributors for helping me with testing the bugs, suggesting improvements and keeping the community active :

• @AE-SAY-WAY
• @rikashore
• @SgtPebble
• @rafaelfiviola
• @Steve-Klingele
• @Kun-Stark
• @AleksandraKuna
• @georgef-me

And thank you to all those who had reached out to me on other platforms for improvement of this plugin.❤

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tu2-atmanand/Task-Board/compare/1.8.7…1.9.0