[Question] Redundant Columns types?

[AE-SAY-WAY]

Now that we have all tasks, is there a reason to have the rest of the columns types? would it not make more sense to get rid of column types, and only allow that menu for moving/renaming columns etc

[tu2-atmanand]

I understand what you are referring to. When user want to create a new column, clicking the "Add new column" button should directly create a column, instead of showing this modal. Where the column will be of type "All pending tasks". And then user can open the "Advanced Column Filters" to configure what should be shown inside the column.

But, it wont be possible to remove this feature right now. Task Board cannot make such a big change because of following reasons :

• Drag and drop feature will no longer exist : Removing all other types of columns will also remove the functionality for users to drag and drop tasks, which is a functionality a lot of users are demanding. Read more here : [FEATURE REQUEST] : Advanced Column Filtering Only #535 (comment)
• Legacy support : The sudden change will confuse user who are not familiar with the Column filters and who uses column filters only for temporary filtering purposes. Because, as you might know, when we apply a column filter, the column count highlights itself, indicating that a filter has been applied. A lot of users are now used to this behavior.

Along with these, there are few more reason, which I might have forgotten. But, its always important to provide a backward compatibility, so the older version of the software is also maintained properly and such a big change shouldnt be provided.

If any other developer, wants to create a fork of this project and wants to release a new plugin with this kind of working thats completely fine with me. Because, I feel, Task Board was started after inspiration from CardBoard plugin, which used to work this way. But if we bring such a big change to this plugin, its like completely changing the working of the plugin. So, I feel, this should be a separate plugin, if such a change is to be implemented.

But, who knows, at this stage, there are a lot of things yet to be implemented in Task Board. This plugin is yet to implement its most important feature, #33 , which is its vision. So, there is a lot of time, till this plugin is complete. After that, we may think of this change. Whether it should be done in Task Board itself, or whether we shall create a new plugin.

[AE-SAY-WAY]

Yeah no problem, It doesn't crate hinderence at all.

I was just thinking it was redundant, but if there are users who use drag and drop over filtering manually, that is fine.

Feel free to close this issue

[tu2-atmanand]

I'll convert this issue into a discussion topic incase if in future someone has the same question they can refer to this discussion.