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Tasks view</H1>
<P CLASS="Para"> The Tasks view displays tasks that you add manually. You can
associate a task with a resource in the Workbench, but this is not required.</P>
<p><img src="../images/Image243_tasks_view.png" alt="Picture of the Tasks view with two dummy tasks added to it." border="0"></p>
<p CLASS="Head">
By default, the Tasks view is included in the Resources perspective. To add it
to the current perspective, click
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.ui.views.TaskList)")'>
<img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png">
<b>Window &gt; Show View &gt; Other... &gt; General &gt; Tasks</b></a>.
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The following icons are used by the Tasks view:</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" summary="Icon table">
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<th valign="top" align="center">Icon</th>
<th valign="top" align="left">Description</th>
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<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-21.png" alt=" High priority task item" border="0" ></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> High priority task</td>
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<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-23.png" alt=" Low priority task icon" border="0"></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> Low priority task </td>
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<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-25.png" alt="Completed task icon" border="0"></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> Completed task </td>
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<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/addtask.png" alt="Add task" border="0" ></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> Add task</td>
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<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/delete_edit.png" alt="Delete" border="0"></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> Delete</td>
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<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/filter_ps.png" alt="Filter" border="0" ></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"> Filter</td>
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<p CLASS="Head"> The first column indicates whether the task is completed. Completed
tasks are flagged with a check mark, which you add manually.</p>
<p CLASS="Head"> The second column indicates whether the task is high, normal,
or low priority.&nbsp;</p>
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The Description column contains a description of the line item.&nbsp;
You can edit the description of user-defined tasks by selecting <b>Properties</b> from the context menu.</P>
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The Resource and Path columns provide the name and location of the resource
associated with each line item.</P>
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The Location column indicates the line number of the line item within its associated resource.</P>
<h2>Toolbar</h2>
<p>The toolbar of the Tasks view includes the following buttons.</p>
<dl>
<dt>Add task</dt>
<dd>Manually add a &quot;to do&quot; item to the Tasks view.</dd>
<dt>Delete</dt>
<dd>Delete the selected line item.</dd>
<dt>Filter</dt>
<dd>Filter the view according to the type of item.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Menus</h2>
<p>Click the icon at the left end of the view's title bar to open a menu of items
generic to all views. Click the upside-down triangle icon to open a menu of
items specific to the Tasks view. Right-click inside the view to open a context
menu.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-77.htm">Adding line items in the Tasks view</a>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-77b.htm"><br>Associating a task with a resource</a>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-78.htm"><br>Deleting tasks</a>
<a href="../tasks/tasks-79.htm"><br>Filtering the task view</a></p>
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