count open task for progress

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Tom Bauer

• May 20, 2014 09:24

Hi there,

I'd like to count the open tasks of an app item to trigger the progress bar. If the second issue (triggering the progress bar) is not able, the relation of open and done task would also do it.

any ideas?

Thanks for your help :)

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  Damir Ayginin

  • May 20, 2014 09:43

  That's great idea! Voting up to see if anyone can come with solution

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  Stefan Ukena

  • May 21, 2014 19:42

  Hi Tom,

  counting tasks is not (yet?) possible with calculation fields, unless you mean that you have a separate app for tasks (not the native Podio tasks). If in fact you have two apps (one with items, one with tasks), then you could try what I described here: https://help.podio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201849698-Counting-number-of-related-apps

  Hope that helps! Best,
  Stefan

  http://www.diekollaborateure.com/go/podio/help

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  Mike Smuland

  • May 23, 2014 11:02

  What is the plan for the Calculation field? It seems quite limited so far. Is this a focus of the Podio team or something that will take a year to improve?

  I need to determine whether I should learn JavaScript to make Calculations useful. Creating a Task app to work around Podio limitations doesn't seem proper. Thanks.

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  Tom Bauer

  • May 23, 2014 11:38

  Hey guys,

  thanks for your great feedback. We do not use a seperate app for tasks, so we can't use your workaround Stefan. I already thought about using the api and webhooks but it feels like "Die Kirche ums Dorf tragen" ;)

  I really hope that there will be a way to do more things like that (selecting and triggering fields / tasks) in the future

  cheers Tom

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  David Williams

  • September 11, 2014 15:57

  The ability to count referenced fields (as opposed to sum, avg) would be very useful. I used Stefan's workaround in order to provide a calculated progress field in the projects app that averages progress of all related items across multiple deliverables apps. Providing a method to count related items would be much cleaner.

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  Mike Adams

  • April 10, 2015 12:50

  You can get a Count of items in any app field using by accessing sum of xxx and ave of xxx

  count = sum of / ave of

  clunky but it works

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