Wishlist: Looking for a checklist component

[Travis Goodman]

Hi Alex!

I can’t recall if I mentioned this previously or not, but I’m looking for either an idea for a solution, or a component that can be added to Modern DFFS that will allow for checklist functionality.

What I’m doing is trying to come up with a way that I can track individual requirements that roll up to one deliverable within a master list.

Think of it kind of like 3 lists, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be built this way.

List 1 = Project list. Master list with all projects. Each item is a separate project.

List 2 = Tasks list. Child list to the Master Projects list. I create new items from the Master list via vLookup for each task I need to track. Each task might have individual requirements that need to be completed, which goes into…

List 3 (this doesn’t have to be a list at all, it could be a custom component built into DFFS) = Requirements. These are the individual deliverables that must be completed for the Task in list 2 to be considered completed. I want to simply track (or check off) if these were completed or not one-by-one and be able to reflect a percentage of total completion towards the overarching task.

So to visualize this, let’s say in List 1 I have a project called “DFFS Enhancement”. Within that project, I create a Task (List 2) via vLookup that is titled “Request new DFFS Component”. From there, I need to list out the requirements that must be completed in order for “Request new DFFS Component” task to be considered completed. So in a 3rd list (or preferably a custom component) I’d need to create line items for:

1. Log into SPJSWorks
2. Create new post
3. Wait to hear back from Alex
4. Download updated DFFS
5. Install new DFFS

And in the above example, I have 5 items, so I’d want to understand that in order to reach 100% on the task of “Request new DFFS Component”, all of the above need to be completed. Lines 1, 2, and 3 are checked off, so DFFS knows I am 60% done.

I know I could build most of this with just vLookup, but for List 3, I really don’t need any of that to actually be in a list. It’d be better if these were just like a simple checkbox custom component that I could add to my form.

What are your thoughts on this? Or is there a better way I could be doing this?

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
I don’t have any solution to this ready, but from what you explain it could be done using custom js and HTML to build a checkbox list and then store the data in a multiline plain text field as a JSON object.

I don’t have any code examples, but basically what you would want is an array of the subtasks and a completed property – something like this:

[
    { id: 1, label: "Task #1", "completed": false },
    { id: 2, label: "Task #2", "completed": true },
    { id: 3, label: "Task #3", "completed": false },
    { id: 4, label: "Task #4", "completed": false }
]

Then you would use JavaScript in Custom JS to read the array and draw a HTML list of checkboxes / labels. When checking the box it writes back to the JSON data object and storing the data in a multiline textfield.

Alexander

[Travis Goodman]

Ahhhh I really like that idea. I hadn’t considered using a multiline text field as blob storage. Makes total sense, I will do that!

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