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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nClick on the ‘Add checklist’ button to open the checklist editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The checklist form allows any number of items to be added, with a separate row for each item. Each item has a title, and an optional story point value. When all the items have been entered, click on the ‘Save’ button to add the new checklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The confirmed check list now appears within the Edit Task form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note; the task must be saved for the new checklist to be saved as part of the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two ways of recording checklist progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find the task with the checklist, and click over the task to open the ‘Edit task’ form<\/p>\n\n\n\n Select each checklist item that is completed, and check its checkbox. After that click on the ‘Save’ button to update the task. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Update the view display configuration so that the ‘checklist’ attribute is selected to display in the task card subtitle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any task that has a checklist will have a check list attribute and progress bar shown in the task card subtitle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To update the checklist status, simply click over the checklist attribute in the task card subtitle area. After clicking, the checklist progress pop up form will appear<\/p>\n\n\n\n Change the state of any completed checklist items by checking the appropriate checkbox entries, and then click the ‘Save’ button to store the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The task card subtitle display will be updated to show a progress bar on checkbox completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A task can have its own checklist of actions to complete. Each checklist action is is either open or completed. When all checklist actions are completed, the task is considered completed. A checklist is a very useful method for avoiding the need to create lost of small scale related tasks. The sensible use of checklists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[9,13],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[28],"class_list":["post-931","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-tasks","doc_category-today","knowledge_base-web-good-day"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":386,"total_views":"316","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"davout","author_nicename":"dkknamugfgsc","author_url":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/author\/dkknamugfgsc\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Tasks","term_url":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/docs\/mobile-good-day\/tasks\/"},{"term_name":"Today","term_url":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/docs\/mobile-good-day\/today\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Web Good Day","term_url":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/docs\/web-good-day\/","term_slug":"web-good-day"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["web-good-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/931\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/good-day\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-98.png\")
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