No "Add Task" Button in Kanban View with Bucket configuration mode Filter available

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Currently, when using a custom view with Kanban where the bucket configuration mode is set to “Filter”, there is no option to create a new task directly in this custom view. This limitation makes it impossible to create new tasks in this view without switching to another view, which disrupts the workflow.

Possible Solutions:

  1. Easy Solution: Add a global “Create New Task” button somewhere in the Kanban view.
  2. Nice Solution: Add a “Create New Task” button for each bucket that automatically assigns the filter options configured for that bucket to the new task.
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You can always use the global quick action for this (ctrl k, then “new task”)

This is really hard to do - and there are cases where it’s impossible, for example when you have tasks from two projects in one bucket (A task can always belong to one project only).
Filters are very flexible and it’s not really possible to resolve them back to a unique set of attributes for a task.

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Thanks for the quick reply!

The keyboard shortcut is a great solution for power users, and I can live with that. However, if the tool should also be used by less experienced users, I would still suggest adding a visible global button in the (custom filtered) Kanban view.

Understandable - just an idea from my use case.

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On mobile devices, it’s not possible to use keyboard shortcuts (especially those requiring “ctrl”), so having a global “Add Task” button would make it much easier to add tasks directly in the (custom filtered) Kanban view on mobile.

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I came to this discussion group to request this global add button feature. I noticed that it is also related to [FR] - Possibility to create tasks also in Table-View instead only in List · Issue #517 · go-vikunja/vikunja · GitHub.

I understand from a design perspective, it is hard selecting which category that the new task should fall into.

I suggest that when one is not clearly known in the application, the default project (in settings) is selected and kanban board 0 of the current project is selected.

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If you click on the search icon on the top right, you get the same global search / command popup you’d get with the keyboard shortcut.

Isn’t that already the case?

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Yes, it is.

In my context, I am viewing from a saved filter. I get the search icon, but I cannot figure out how to add a task from that multi-use tool.

EDIT: From home screen, the New Task command is seen. I create a new task and the application gives an error: no project.

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Ah, there was a bug with setting the project from a saved filter. Can you check this on the demo?

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The 0.24.1 build works great. The issue is gone. Thanks for fixing it.

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You probably want to upgrade to 0.24.6, as 0.24.1 has critical security issues that were fixed in later versions.

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I am a bit new to this community and not understanding of what the latest patch versions are.

I had no issues on the demo (which was running 0.24.1 at the time I tested).
My environment is 0.24.6 (containers), which has the issues described.

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The demo runs on the latest unstable build (note the number and hash
after the 0.24.1 version string) that’s cut from the development
branch. The release versions have fixes backported from there.

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