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How can I enter text in the Task Description column?

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tmartinez

07 Dec, 2016 02:34 AM

Love Timelime, I have been using it for several years now.

I cannot find a way to enter data on the last column to the right "Task Description".

Thank you.

Tomas

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1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Niko on 07 Dec, 2016 08:27 AM

   

   Hi Thomas,

   Thank you for using Timelime for such a long time!

   If you right-click on a task and select ‘Get Info’, you’ll see a field ‘description’. Whatever you fill in there goes into the ‘Get Info’ field of the CSV export.

   Thank you,
   Niko

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2. 2 Posted by tmartinez on 07 Dec, 2016 01:39 PM

   

   Niko:

   I did it and yes, whatever I put on the "Get Info" field on a Task, appears on the “Task Description” column in the CVS report, but being on the Task, it became a repeating field which makes no sense. It would be nice to have Time Notes, AND Task Description for each entry.

   Thank you

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Niko on 07 Dec, 2016 09:41 PM

   

   Hey Thomas,

   Yes, if you have a lot of timings from the same task in your CSV, it makes no sense to include the "Task Description" field in the CSV.

   I don't quite understand what you mean by "It would be nice to have Time Notes, AND Task Description for each entry."
   As it is now, you can turn on/off the "Timing Notes" field and the "Task Description" field individually for the CSV export.
   Would you like to have an individual task description for each timing?

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4. 4 Posted by tmartinez on 08 Dec, 2016 12:21 PM

   

   Niko:

   On second thoughts I think that probably the header Time Notes / Task Description and then the next column called also Task Description is a little bit misleading. Probably a I will prefer using Time Notes just as Time Notes and have a switch to turn off the column Task Description if you wish.

   I have learned more about Timelime. Thanks for your nice and quick support Niko, you have a great product!

   Tomas

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Niko on 08 Dec, 2016 12:44 PM

   

   Thank you Tomas for your nice words!

   Yes, the "Time Notes / Task Description" appears when you check "Put into notes field if there is no note available" in the "Include task descriptions" section.
   You probably want to uncheck this...

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