A New Home for Tasks
Hi, I’m Kai Chen, an engineer focused on building collaboration loops in Confluence, which are features that help teams move work forward more effectively together.
The world of work has fundamentally shifted in the past two years to fully embrace distributed work. Tasks in Confluence connect work across different products and contexts, so flexible and simple experiences with tasks are key to achieving goals quickly with your team. I’m excited to share that you can now view all of your tasks in one place on Confluence Home. This update makes finding key tasks, staying updated, and closing the loop on action items now easier than ever.
🎓 A Little Graduation
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Based on our deep dive into workflows with our users, we created better ways to check and report on the work you have in Confluence. Before, finding your assigned tasks required you to navigate to your profile in the navigation bar under a menu option. Now, checking on your tasks is conveniently accessible on your Home page via a new “Task” option on the left-hand side. We’ve improved sorting, categorizing, and filtering to keep things moving because finding your work easily is crucial to an efficient workflow.
🔍 New Task Filters
When viewing your tasks, you can now use new categories to filter and find the tasks you want to work on. Selecting one or more users for the “Creator” filter will display tasks published by specific people that assigned the task to you, and the “Due Date” filter allows you to find tasks that are due within a specific time frame.
You can also combine filters such as a custom due date range, page, and space to check for tasks with greater precision. By finding specific tasks quickly, you can focus on the most relevant work at the right times.
Sort or Group Tasks
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Change the column to display the most useful information to you about your tasks – space, assignee, or creator of the task. Use the new sorting features to sort alphabetically or by due dates to reach the most time-sensitive work.
Getting to Done, From Home!
Between tasks assigned to you and those created by yourself, completing a task will automatically check it off on its respective Confluence page. You can also click on the title of the page the task is on to get more contextual information. Although checking off a task will remove it from your task list, you can always use the “Status” filter for completed tasks to see what you’ve finished in the past.
Conclusion
Being able to see all your action items in one place provides an actionable springboard for managing your workflow. More importantly, having the flexibility to quickly find relevant tasks can accelerate and simplify the way teams can collaborate together.
We’re looking forward to sharing this new experience as we roll out to your Confluence Cloud instance soon! Tell us how we can continue to improve your workflow in Confluence in the comments below as you try out tasks in their new Home.
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