How can you increase your overall business performance?
Use VIP Team To Do List, that's how.
Software review by: Jeb Riordan Software Requirements:
Windows 98SE / ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000 / 2003 Server. Hardware Requirements
Pentium 150 MHz or better
32 Mb of RAM or more
10 MB free disk space
VGA Video {mosadsense4joomla ad_layout="A"ad_align=""}VIP Team To Do List is a professional, full-featured software tool for managing multiple to-do lists, giving you the ability to track all and every task of your team. In a few mouse clicks you can create new tasks with reminders and detailed description. Tasks can be categorized to provide effective tracking. Every task can be assigned a priority and an audible reminder. A list of your tasks can be printed in an easy-to-use format. VIP Team To Do List allows you to manage appointments, to-do lists, schedules, and more. It can be set it up to send a visual or audible alarm to notify you of things to be done daily The application is downloadable as a zip file. Unzip the setup.exe file and run. The first time the application is opened it needs the user to set up a new database. This is easy to do, just remember where on your hard drive you put it! The annoying 'tip of the day' popup pops up and is immediately closed, 'don't ask me again' Ggrrhhh! The application opens and hey! the user interface looks like Windows XP, I feel comfortable already. 
The VIP Team To Do List provides a clear easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, which allows you to add and manage your tasks quickly. It is uncluttered and easily to understand and looks similar to many other windows applications. - Main toolbar - provides quick access to commonly-used commands.
- Navigation bar - is located in the left margin of the main window and gives access to the main functions for working with databases, tasks and categories.
- General Operations - This section contains main commands for working with databases and printing commands.
- Task Operations - This section contains main commands for managing tasks in the Tasks List
- Category Operations - This section contains main commands for creating, editing and deleting categories, as well as commands that control the position of a category in the category tree
- Resource Operations - This section contains main commands for managing team members(resources) in the Resourses List.
- Categories bar - is located in the upper right margin of the main window and displays a hierarchical list of existing categories, allowing to quickly filter the tasks by category.
- Categories are used to group related tasks. Each tasks belongs to some category. You assign the category on creating a new task, and can change the category when you edit the task.
- You can quickly and easily change the hierarchy level of a category by drag & drop - drag a category to the desired position and release the mouse button to drop it there.
If you need to change the category of selected tasks, drag and drop them onto the needed category.
Right-click on a category to call the context menu with the full list of actions applicable to that category.
- Filters bar - is located in the right margin of the main window. It contains the "Filter by Done" and "Filter by Due Date" sections and allows to quickly filter tasks by the "Done" field and the task's due date.
- "Filter by Done" lets you quickly filter tasks by the "Done" field, so you can see only the tasks in progress, or only the completed tasks.
- "Filter by Due Date" lets you filter the tasks by their due date.
This filter, together with the modifier, shows the tasks which are due on or before the date selected in the filter field, or due exactly on the selected date (you can see the tasks due on a specific date), or due on or after the selected date.
The flexibilty and ease of use of "Filter by Due Date" makes it possible to generate required task reports in a few mouse clicks
- Resource Assignment Bar - is located in the lower right margin of the main window and displays the list of available resources for one or more selected tasks.
- The bar displays information about the assigned and available resources and allows to quickly (in one click) change the information about the assignments made or assign additional resources to the task
The resource list is displayed only if there is at least one task selected in the Tasks List.
To appoint a team member, just select the task and click on the check box to the left of the name of the corresponding resource or you can drag chosen resource on the needed task.
- The central section of the main window is where most of the action takes place: two tabs, "task list" and "resouces"
- Task List - displays tasks and allows the user to group and filter tasks and provides full access to task properties.
- You can easily sort the columns using the Field Chooser. To open the Field Chooser window just make a right mouse-click on a column header and choose the apropriate item from the menu. You can also open the Field Chooser using View-Columns... item from the main menu
There are too many fields for normal use and I found it much easier to delete the majority of them.
- Double-click in the task area to bring up the Create Task dialoque box
- Prioritisation is one process of managing your To Do Lists. This is easily accomplished in the Create Task dialogue box or using the buttons in the main toolbar.
- Due dates can be set as well as identifying recurring events and setting reminders.
- Resources List - displays all resources, allows the user to manage the list of resources of the group and provides full access to each resource’s properties.
- In this view you can create descriptions for new team members and edit existing team members.
Again using the Field Chooser this view can be changed to suit your needs.
- Double-clicking in the resource window will bring up the Create Resource dialogue box.
The VIP Team To Do List has a powerful filter system which allows quick sorting of tasks based on their attributes.
To set up the filter it is first necessary to open the main window and select the necessary category from the list on the right. the import/export function allows you to convert information from a VIP Team To Do List database into the CSV text format and share this information with other applications and conversely import a csv formatted data into VIP Team To Do List. To Do Lists can also be emailed to task owners. What’s your best way of organizing everyday work of all the workgroup members?
Maybe VIP Team To Do List is the answer VIP To Do List is awarded  4 PROJECTmagazine bananas
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Jeb Riordan (c) 2005
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