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New: Schedule your Tasks, and Magic Mentions

Posted by Michelle Griffin on September 14, 2020

Schedule your Tasks

In our latest release we have made scheduling more flexible, by adding tasks to your timeline view.

If you know when a task needs to be done, and you want to “book” the assignees, set a start and end date for the task, and it will show in the timeline of those assigned.

Tasks vs Bookings, which should I use?

It depends on what you are trying to schedule. 

A task with a start and end date will book everyone on the task for that time window.

Bookings can have both people or non-people resources involved, and one or more events per resource. Each event can have different start and end times.

For example, on a task to prepare a proposal with a colleague, you can add a start and end date to book you both for an afternoon when you will both work on the task.

However, for recording sessions for a project, you might want to book an engineer and a studio for different slots over a week. In this case you should use a booking.

Of course, you can mix and match for the variety of work that you need to do.

Faster collaboration with @all mentions

There is now a new shortcut to chat with all of your colleagues.

Cirkus now supports mentioning all task assignees, everyone in a project, all workspace members, or everyone involved in a booking with the @all mention shortcuts.

Type the @all shortcut, and select from the available options where you are collaborating.


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Michelle has nearly 20 years’ experience in telecoms and media, starting at O2 Ireland and IBM before becoming COO at farmerswife. She leads the development of the farmerswife and Cirkus platforms, blending technical expertise with strong leadership skills.
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