Limit Number of Subtasks Shown Option

[darthmachina]

I tend to break down my tasks to a fairly granular level, which means my subtask list can get pretty long. It would be nice to have the option to limit the number of subtasks shown on a card. If there is a limit set I would show the first n items in the subtask list with a line that indicates how many more there are.

It would be nice to have this be a configurable option to set the amount of items to limit to. Setting this to 0 could indicate that there is no limit which would mimic the current functionality.

Something like this, if the limit was set to 2:

[roovo]

Great idea and should be pretty simple to do - so will add it to the next milestone :)

[roovo]

A couple of things have now come to mind (applies to #17 too):

• I would make this a global configuration as I want to keep the board configuration options as small as possible. Would this line up with your use case?
• (sort of) in line of the tooltip discussion -> is leaving this as it is a way of forcing people to break down their task lists a bit more so they don't end up with one with a big pile of subtasks. And would this be a good thing? It could help give people a sense of flow when dealing with tasks as they would be getting more cards done.

[roovo]

I am going to move these out of this milestone for now as more thought required!

[darthmachina]

I spent a little time looking at this last night, and I agree that making it a global configuration. At least, I would want it to be the same across all the boards. Same with #17.

As for the second point, I can see your point but I do think it's different. I like my cards to be a single completable thing but when breaking it down the steps it can still get pretty big. I have ADHD so I tend to go pretty granular so I don't forget things later. Some of the cards related to things I'm working on for work can get to 25+ subtasks, especially since I'm dealing with multiple related code repositories. The option to hide completed tasks is probably more important than this one, at least for my workflow, but I think this one is still valuable.

[roovo]

I'm coming round, but will leave it where it is for now as there is plenty to be doing!

[darthmachina]

I hear you. Like I said, #17 is probably the more important of the two, at least for me. I do have some cards where viewing the whole list is nice, but removing completed subtasks cleans up the board as well but leaves undone things still visible.

[roovo]

Need to think about how this would work if this task is appearing on a board because of the tag on a sub-task. If that sub-task is hidden due to this limit then this could be confusing as it would not be obvious why it was on a board when looking at the card....

See #95 and #83