Allow to create and view forum discussions from a task details form
I'm coming back to Zoho projects after using Jira for a while and i have to say that it feels so much more intuitive and coherent than Jira. Although very powerful Atlassian tools are built on modular architecture and different modules feel very disjointed and the workflow is far from smooth. We were using Jira Agile plugin and it felt like a bolt-on rather than integrated experience. After i saw that Zoho had integrated Kanban view i figured i'll give it another try and so far it's nice. Not as feature rich as Jira but much more intuitive to use. Dropbox, Google Drive, and BitBucket integrations are also excellent additions for software projects.
One suggestion for Zoho would be to be able to create a new forum post from a task details Forums tab. Currently if you're creating a task and realize that the task requires team discussion before proceeding you have to
- exit the task details form
- click over to the Forums
- create a new forum post for that discussion
- go back to the task and attach that forum post to the task.
It would be much more efficient to be able to create a new post straight from the task's Forums tab.
It would also be much more helpful if the discussion thread of a forum topic attached to the task would be actually visible in the task's forum tab. Both task comments and forum posts are team discussions. Some are only relevant in the context of a task, others are not related to any particular task, and still others are related to a task but also are important to be visible in the forums. So it seems that these discussion threads should behave the same way regardless of where users are accessing them from: from the task or from the forum.
I'm looking forward to diving into the latest and greatest in Zoho Projects.