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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> |
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| 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)")'> |
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| <b>Window > Show View > Other... > General > 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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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ihigh_obj.svg" 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/ilow_obj.svg" alt=" Low priority task icon" border="0"></td> |
| <td valign="top" align="left"> Low priority task </td> |
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| <tr> |
| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/complete_tsk.svg" 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/addtsk_tsk.svg" 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.svg" alt="Delete" border="0"></td> |
| <td valign="top" align="left"> Delete</td> |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/filter_ps.svg" 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. </p> |
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| The Description column contains a description of the line item. |
| 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 "to do" 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. </p> |
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| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3> |
| <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> |
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