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Compatibility: | Shadowlands patch (9.2.7) |
Updated: | 09-18-22 11:45 PM |
Created: | 05-03-16 02:30 AM |
Downloads: | 8,023 |
Favorites: | 45 |
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Categories: | Data Broker, Data Mods, Miscellaneous, Utility Mods |
Executive Assistant Custom To-Do/Task List is Only the Beginning An Executive Assistant helps you efficiently navigate a busy schedule, answers questions, and keeps information in easy reach. Executive Assistant, the addon, does this for the Player and extends the 'user configurable to-do list' concept a bit. Yet, for all one can do with it, its purpose is to do what the Player needs, be it complex or quite simple. Executive Assistant operates at the Account Level, so you can quickly look at a Character and see Tasks they have/haven't completed. Or, quickly look at a Task, and see which Characters have/haven't completed it — even if you use the same name on multiple servers. Tasks and Groups are only entered once. The Per-Character Visual Layout lets you quickly configure how the Tasks and Groups are used. The same simple system shows Tasks for Special Events (e.g. Holiday, Darkmoon Faire, etc) only when you choose. Tasks can be automatically reset Daily or Weekly, At Each Login, Every 1-365 Days, or never. Or, be used only once. They may hide then appear on a Date you choose. They may also be Account Wide (e.g., Blingtron). You can manage Tasks in complicated groups but display them more simply. You can even enter Tasks from the command line — handy for reminders, shopping lists, or quickly filling in a new Group. While the surface has barely scratched and marvelous combinations barely hinted, it is important to note that Executive Assistant's flexibility lets you use it as best fits your unique needs as a Player and how they express individually on each Character. Features
Getting Started
Is It Really That Easy? To get started, YES; to adapt Executive Assistant to your needs, probably not. In fact, you'll almost certainly notice a few things you'll want to change right away... but what those are will be unique to each user. Executive Assistant doesn't pretend there is an 'average user' and to the degree it makes initial selections, it is to show what's available. Under Getting Started in the Help and Information, you will also find a section on First Considerations which addresses the most common first questions among beta testers. New Users will find some Tasks created for them to walk them through the setup basics. Aspirin Avoidance System Users: WE WANT CUSTOMIZATION! Developer: OK, here's some customization. Users: ACK! ACK! TOO MANY CUSTOMIZATIONS! Developer: But... But... (wimper) One of the downsides of the question "wouldn't it be awesome if...?" is that while it may be an awesome feature, people can usually only take so many features (awesome or not) at a time. Enter the Aspirin Avoidance System — a.k.a. Help and Information, so you can work through the features at your own pace. The Help and Information will explain tabs, controls, and usages; it will also give tips on usage, useful tricks, and give you a quick-reference for the pesky icons, of which there are way more than I intended. Per-Character Group and Task Management Groups and Tasks need only be entered once then enabled or disabled for the characters that would use them — Groups and Tasks have user-selectable Defaults to speed the process along. You can manage all your alts from any character. Select the 'Point of View' Character to adjust their unique perspective. For the selected POV Character:
Task Window and DataBroker Tooltip Executive Assistant allows you to use either platform to complete Tasks, though they otherwise have different design functions. Each can be disabled on a per-character basis to adapt to UIs and character need. The Task Window looks always at the currently logged in character and is intended for characters where an always-up list is preferable (with normal/mouse-over transparency, hide during combat, etc). The DataBroker Tooltip has two Modes: Tasks by Character and Characters by Task and may toggle scope between Current Character and All Characters when in Tasks by Character Mode. < Task Window :: Tooltip > Tasks by Character Mode is the familiar list of Tasks a Character needs to do while Characters by Task lets you look at a Task and see which Characters have completed it (e.g., open 'An Important Task 003' and see that Alt001, Alt003, and Alt012 still need to do it) < Characters by Task Special Types Special Types, like all Task and Group properties, can be set or removed at will and Executive Assistant will treat them accordingly. On-The-Fly settings can be set and changed via the DataBroker Tooltip or Task Window. [Task] Account Wide: When completed by one character, the task shows as completed on all characters. While designed for the Blingtron family, it has strong utilitarian uses. [Task] Purgable When Completed: This special Reset Type allows for One-Time-Use and can be Purged (if Completed) at the user's command. These are ideal reminders, shopping lists, notes, etc, and become very powerful when teamed with Account Wide and quite convenient with Command Line Task entry. [Group] Zoom Group: Zoom In to a single Group when focusing on a set of Tasks. When in the Display Zoom Group Mode, this On-The-Fly setting lets you quickly and easily Zoom In/Out of any Group with a single mouse-click. < Groups :: Zoomed In > [Group] Invisible: Lets Child Groups and Tasks appear as if they were part of the Invisible Group's parent Group, allowing for good Task organization without needless visual clutter. < Visible :: Invisible > This is a simple demonstration; the Help and Information section explains an example of a Shopping List combining Character Specific lists, general list, and Any Character list in an easy-to-use way, that lets each Character see a seamless list. [Group] Command Line Target: Lets Command Line entered Tasks know where to go. The Target Group is set On-The-Fly with a mouse click or, if you prefer, via Command Line. Combinations Mix Special Types with Per-Character selection and nested groups and...well, you've got more combinations than I want to contemplate. You can create an elaborate to-do list of events and pass-through groups and actions tailored to each character or keep track of those pesky weekly quests or just setup Blingtron's daily account wide quest for two characters, or a simple per-character to-do list. File Cabinet Disabled by Default, the File Cabinet Companion Addon lets you easily Backup and Restore of Group/Task Configurations. Backup your Executive Assistant configuration and experiment in safety. File Cabinet only needs to be enabled when it's being used so you can safely leave it disabled until it's needed. Caveats What follows is some technical jiggery-pokery for folks who sit up nights contemplating addon jiggery-pokery.
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05-08-16, 06:00 PM | ||
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Re: First Comment!
Hope you enjoy the addon too
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05-13-16, 09:56 PM | ||
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Re: Am I missing how to move the frame?
I don't have my notes handy and I don't recall off the top of my head why dragging via buttons wasn't working -- it'd sure simplify things. I know some blood and tears went into it and its effects were either intermittent or it broke something else. [Edit: Ah, yes... I just tested it. It moves just fine but the buttons also process the 'click' event. It's hard to work around those b/c the normal start/stop moving mechanics are, to the computer, indistinguishable from clicking a button. That area displays the name of the 'zoom group' when one is selected or I'd put 'Exec Assistant' in there so it'd feel like a title-bar/header. I may have to fall back on the tool-tip or remove the zoom-group name display if it's not really an advantage -- some things you can only address from user-feedback] Sorry about that and here's a banana for your trouble
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05-14-16, 05:43 AM | |
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Another question
On the choice of reset times, you say "Local Daily Reset Time" - does that mean local to the computer running, or local to the server? Local (according to the clock on the minimap that Blizz provides) means local to the computer, *not* the server, but I've seen it used both ways so I figured I'd ask.
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05-14-16, 11:20 AM | |||
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Re: Another question
You can toggle the lock by shift-left-clicking the gear icon so if you were trying different modifier keys and not watching the chat box too closely (it was moving to quickly) you may have intermittently locked it which might have prevented it during some of your attempts just adding to the confusion. That checkbox will show checked from the same var that stops the window from moving, so if it was unchecked, the window was movable from the label area at that time. I've also thought up some confusion-prevention... [Edit: list redacted to reduce clutter, see 'Further Edit' below] Edit: On the plus side, I found one (possibly two) style-update bugs while testing out some of the above so thanks for that at least. (I think) Further Edit: I decided to add a optional drag-handle Border (default=enabled) and a new-user task to lock the task-window. As it's a new feature and the bugs I fixed are consistency-of-function or real-time-update related (not 'breaking' -- well, except for the hex converter) I'll hold off publishing atm. I hate putting out > 1 update in 24hrs unless it's a real need.
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05-14-16, 10:27 PM | ||||||
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Re: Re: Another question
Having spent the last 5 hours playing rl-tabletop-pathfinder, I'll probably come back and ask more questions later/tomorrow. I do have some confusion still, tho I may have figured out some of it for myself. It's a lot to figure out. (... I need confetti ...) -Bar |
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05-14-16, 11:47 PM | |||
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Re: Re: Re: Another question
It should only give you trouble if you're a) online at the time of the server reset and b) trying to check off things between then and when your client tells ExecAssist to run the reset. Alternatively, you could have ExecAssist kick off early.
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05-15-16, 10:49 PM | |||||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Another question AND a new question
So, using the system I set up today for the first time:
My Garrison toons have access to the Garrison list (disabled for everyone, enabled for them) to the list of garrison chores: missions, navy, trader, gathering Each toon with profession cooldowns has access to a task of doing them (disabled for everyone else, enabled for them). (alchemy, tailoring, for the nonce) All my toons have access to a group that reminds me to login to my AH toons, and to my 'background' toons - ones that I'm not doing much right now, but that are my storage for BoE xmog gear and lower level crafting and stuff. I've realized that one of the reasons I've been keeping a todo list on my computer's desktop is that I can see, when on toon a, who I have left to do. and if I do toon a, c, and f, and walk away for a while, I can come back and see who I have to login to *before* I login, and also who I've done already to know who next to login. I don't expect to be able to use the addon to tell me who I've finished with before I login but I'm not figuring out how to see which toons have done things already. I thought that would be 'characters by task' but I'm not finding where to bring that up. Also, it was not obvious at first that I had to give a toon access to individual tasks under a generally disabled group after making it enabled for that toon. And is there a way to make a task *without* making a group for it? Did I miss something?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another question AND a new question
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Another question AND a new question
Garrison Missions disable all, enable by WoD toon, daily reset Garrison Navy disable all, enable by WoD toon, daily reset Garrison Gather disable all, enable by WoD toon, daily reset Garrison Trader disable all, enable by WoD toon, daily reset Kazzak disable all, enable by WoD toon, weekly reset Auction House disable all, enable by bank toon, weekly reset (or possibly daily with every other day hidden) Profession daily disable all, enable by crafter toon that has a daily task, daily reset Login to Storage group name Storage toon A enable all, account wide, weekly reset Storage toon B enable all, account wide, weekly reset Storage toon C enable all, account wide, weekly reset Which would have been a lot simpler than what I have now, which does mostly the same thing.
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05-18-16, 10:58 AM | ||||
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Groupless Task
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I'll have a poke around for the hell of it. It DID occur to me that you can create a shift in your time fairly easily (if you can use a text editor) and that's insert the time you want into the list of available times. PM me if you're interested.
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First off I just want to say thank you for this addon because it is incredible. I did have a quick question though. Is there any way to set a task to reset on login?
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05-18-16, 10:45 PM | ||
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