Show priority indicator on Task cards

[tjedelhauser]

Hi Ed,

currently, task cards do not display their priority level (High/Medium/Low) at a glance. This information is only visible after opening the task.

Suggestion:
Add a visible priority indicator directly on the task card/tile, similar to how tickets already show their current status. This could be implemented as:

A colored label/badge (e.g. red = High, yellow = Medium, green = Low), or
A colored border/accent on the card, or
A small icon/tag showing the priority level

Benefit:
Users could immediately identify high-priority tasks without having to open each one individually, improving overview and workflow efficiency.

[edmozley]

Hi @tjedelhauser

Thanks for this, and for the screenshot - it turned out to be the important part.

There is already a priority indicator on task cards, and it is on by default. It was invisible on your installation, which is why the request looked like a missing feature rather than a bug.

It looks like translating the priorities into other languages was what broke things.

What was happening

The dot's colour came from a CSS class built out of the priority's name, matched against four hardcoded English rules:

.priority-dot.urgent { background: #dc3545; }
.priority-dot.high   { background: #f57c00; }
.priority-dot.medium { background: #0078d4; }
.priority-dot.low    { background: #999;    }

Rename High to Hoch and the class becomes priority-dot hoch, which matches nothing. The element still renders. It is still eight pixels wide and perfectly round. It just has no background colour, so it is a transparent circle on a white card.

No error, no fallback, nothing in the console, and nothing on screen to suggest a setting had failed to apply. Adding a fifth priority of your own does the same thing in English.

Your report was the only visible symptom this fault had.

It was more than one place

Four views drew the priority this way - the board card, the list row, the subtask list inside a task, and the timeline. The table view had been reading the colour from the database correctly all along, so the fix was a pattern that already existed one file away.

A few other things fell out of it:

• It was wrong in English too. The seeded colours and the stylesheet never agreed, so Low was configured green under Settings and drawn grey on the card.
• The timeline was worse than blank. It fell back to medium, so on a translated install every task showed a confident blue whatever its real priority was.
• A task with no priority set would have emptied the whole list view.

What you now have

Rather than pick one of your three suggestions, Tasks -> Settings -> Card now offers all of them:

Placement	What appears
Hidden	Nothing
Dot	A coloured dot, the default
Dot and name	The dot with the priority's name beside it
Left edge	A coloured stripe down the side of the card

The choice follows the task to the board, the timeline and the subtask list, so they all read the same way. There is a live preview under the options, and it previews your own default priority rather than a sample, so on a German install it reads Hoch in the colour you gave it.

The colour now comes from the colour you set under Settings -> Priorities. Nothing is derived from the name any more, so you can rename or translate your priorities freely.

Nothing changes for anyone who has not touched the setting: the old on/off value is read as "Dot", which is what those boards already show.

The four placement labels are translated into German. The other 22 languages fall back to English for those six strings until the next translation pass.

Where to read more

Full write-up, including how it was verified and the two earlier times we hit the same fault: The priority dot was invisible if you had renamed your priorities

Released as updates #1292 to #1295.

Thanks again - asking for a feature that already existed was the most useful possible way to report this.