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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 |
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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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05-18-16, 11:30 PM | ||
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05-19-16, 11:35 AM | ||
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05-19-16, 02:25 PM | ||
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It's added in and working just fine. Unfortunately, doing that revived an idea I'd tossed aside early on (n-day reset) so the next version is delayed a bit while I learn to do math.
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05-29-16, 02:09 PM | |
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Reset just one task?
I have a set of manual-reset tasks, the same for each of my garrison toons (the harrison jones sub tasks). I accidentally marked one complete one one toon. How can I reset just that one? I haven't clicked on "Reset Manual" because I don't want to reset *all* the manual tasks and have to go through each toon and re-click on the ones I've completed for harrison, never mind any others I've forgotten...
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05-29-16, 02:11 PM | |
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Oh, and "Resets in 7 days"
So I have some tailoring functions that 'reset in 7 days' - the dreamcloth, at the moment. I seem to recall some other crafting task that was 'reset in 3 days'. Is there some way to automate that, when I click that I've done it, it will show up again in a settable number of days?
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05-30-16, 03:14 AM | |||
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Re: Oh, and
ALL Tasks are toggleable checked/unchecked for precisely the reason you cite.
Executive Assistant was designed to be just about unkillable when WoW updates so that means it touches the game very, very minimally. I don't want to change that or bloat Executive Assistant but I like the idea of one place to find all the things I need to do (instead of 10+ different addons and reminder methods) I've been working on an external library (to allow other addons that track things like that more precisely to inject and manage checked/unchecked/updates/etc for related Tasks) and am tossing around some modular embedding ideas for things that I'd personally want. I've a proof-of-concept alpha for auto-completing quests when you turn them in (I'm in deeep love w/ it, even in alpha).
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05-30-16, 04:27 PM | |||||
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Re: Re: Oh, and
Yes, I could avoid this by doing the task every Tuesday and just using the weekly reset, but that presupposes I actually login every Tuesday. My logins aren't that reliable. And that doesn't account for the reset that I recall that was 3 days (either alchemy or inscription, I recall which toon had it but that one had both those professions). Love this addon, btw. Still trying to figure out a more efficient way of creating the pile of tasks. -Bar |
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Re: Re: Re: Oh, and
I could consider the offset in hours-and-days but the logic behind that is...yet another reset type b/c usage logic is different. Could be argued to default the previous and add a "At 00:00" flag to force-adjust the time but it it's pushed in sideways. So... Yes, I will make offset-from-last-completion happen. No, I don't quite know how is best to do it yet. I'm working on a ... 'more comprehensive approach' (auto-complete, etc) to things like that that in a way that doesn't bloat ExecAssist to do it. The technical aspects are easy-peasy and the alpha test-case (for quests anyway) is dreamy; the UI/UX...is killing me.
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05-30-16, 11:23 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Oh, and
I'm visualizing this as "Character X needs to do 1,2,3,4,5,6,....". I've INPUT it as Garrison Stuff ->> 4 tasks, enable per character. So that's compact. But when I look at the minimap button with all the characters visible, it's huge. (Cause I have 18 toons between two linked realms). If I open up the Harrison quest sets (which are organized by quest, with the names of the toons that have/not done iit) it runs off the bottom of the screen (thank you for having a scrollbar!!!!!) I keep thinking there must be a way to make it more compact, but I don't think that having the top level groups be the character names and then their tasks would work either. This probably isn't anything that you should do anything about. I may just be obsessing over looks. And yes, I coudl reset that to only show the current character. I have a reason for wanting everythign visible, I just can't think of it right now to explain it. |
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07-07-16, 09:28 AM | |
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When I enable Executive Assistant, my World of Warcraft does not want to load.
The loading-bar fills all the way up, but it just stays there. Any idea what this is? - I'm willing to provide logs if it's possible to provide any. I'm trying to load only Executive Assistant. No other addons enabled. This is the only addon it occurs with. Even tried to disable the manager. Same issue. Edit: I saw another person had the same issue as me, as you suggested a restart. So I did. It worked. I did not use curse or the curse-client though. A restart fixed it none the less.
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07-08-16, 05:40 PM | ||
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07-12-16, 04:28 PM | |
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Am I the only one who reads changelogs?
"AceTimer needed an aspirin"
I probably laughed more than warranted, but I've coded things like that. ("All I did was add a blank comment line. Now it works.") Even tho it was back in college. Still loving the addon. Have some desires for the visible task manager, mostly involving it staying on screen but being smaller sometimes, but not actually asking for things until I come up with some sensible way to say what I want. "Do what I mean when I want it!" doesn't count. |
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08-08-16, 05:49 AM | |
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First of all, oh my god, I love you. The amount of paper you're saving me...
Secondly... feature request: an ability to set a minimum level for a task / group to show for characters. (Reasoning: there's a number of bosses I want to punch weekly / daily for mounts and whatnot, and a lot of alts. I'd like for the tasks to show automatically when a given alt is at or above the level you can comfortably solo the boss at, but otherwise be hidden, to avoid seeing a gazillion extra tasks when I level a new alt. Also useful for things like profession cooldowns, but that's just one task, not fifteen...) Also, I'd love if there was a way to sync (non-character-specific) tasks between accounts, since I have two, but that's less essential since it's just for easing the initial setup of a mass of tasks. |
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