Please allow us to choose all perameters for a task right from when we create the task

OK, I know I'm posting a lot of things here, but I'm just getting started with ZP and am just entering in my projects/tasks and coming across the usual stumbling blocks of a beginner, as well as things that I'm seeing have become issues with the new release.

Unless I'm just mistaken and I'm doing something wrong, it seems that there are too many steps for entering in tasks. When I create a milestone, and then a task list, and then a series of tasks underneath it, every single time I create a task, I have to 1) first create the task, then hit enter. Then 2) Zoho moves me down to the next line where I can input another task, so 3) I then have to GO BACK TO THE PRIOR TASK I JUST ENTERED, click on it, then 4) the window open up where I can input all the info related to the task such as start and due date, who it's assigned to, etc. Then 5) I close the window. Phyooo!!! That is a LOT of steps!

Why not just immediately when we're creating the task, have all those options available without having to click anything, so we just enter the task with all its info (or none if that's the case and we don't want to add info at the time) and just click enter. Very very very fast, and very intuitive. When we're entering in multiple tasks, milestones, subtasks, etc (as anyone who is needing this program in the first place is doing) it adds up to a LOT of time to have to open all these dang windows and do all these clicks every time we simply want to create, edit, or delete tasks. I have paid for my first month of ZP but upon actually trying to start entering my projects and using the program, I'm just not seeing that I'm going to be able to deal with all this time consuming tediousness ongoingly.

Please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong, whether there is an easier way to add, edit, and delete tasks; and if not, if the Zoho team is listening to its users and has plans to go back to what I've heard was a much easier task process in the last version.

Thank you!

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