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Attention to Tasks NeededOpen : Open for Consideration

I believe that FreshService is missing a huge opportunity when it comes to the way tasks are handled. We just rolled out FS and I was hoping to use tasks in order to structure clearly defined processes within our organization. The idea is that a SR would be submitted and tasks created for groups that had work to do in order to fulfill the SR.The problem?Tasks are not working that well in FS. I see three different problems that require some solutions and improvements in order to make this function the way most people would expect it to work.No unique task URL. Since I’m assigning tasks to a group and not an individual, it takes multiple clicks for a user to see any upcoming tasks. (My Work → Tasks → My Group Tasks → Upcoming). If there was a unique URL, the URL could just be bookmarked. We tested this, but that doesn’t work. There is no UI notification when a new task is assigned. Like incidents, it should be easy to put a red bubble notification with the quantity of tasks assigned - as I mentioned previously, there is no UI notification that a task is assigned - you have to rely on the email and that is easily missed. Lastly, I have been looking for a solution - it seems that for years, people have been begging to get the tasks updated, so I’m not very hopeful that this request or any other will benefit the community. I think tasks could be used very powerfully for organizations where a ticket doesn’t need to bounce around, but instead just one ticket could remain open while groups complete their tasksI hope to see FreshService put some effort into the tasks - as I mentioned previously, they could be very powerful to organizations that don’t want to unnecessarily open child tickets to accomplish a task. The days of moving a ticket from group to group should be over - that’s a slow way to handle customer service when multiple groups need to be involved. Tasks are the future; we just need to treat them that way.