Issues Lists


The issues list is designed to track issues as opposed to tasks. The difference can be hard to put your finger on because a task might involve dealing with different sorts of issues, and resolving issues might be a task. The main difference between the lists is that the issues list tracks two different items from a tasks list: Category and Add Related Issue.

Figure 8.3 shows the New Item page (referenced as NewForm.aspx in the URL), which looks very similar to the screen shown in Figure 8.2 for the tasks list. The only real difference is that an issue has a Category field and an Add Related Issue field, whereas the task item has the % Complete and Start Date fields.

Figure 8.3. Adding a new issue.


Figure 8.4 shows a sample issues list (referenced as AllItems.aspx in the URL) with three issues listed. Two additional views are available in the left-hand menu, both of which are self-explanatory: My Issues and Active Issues. Issue 1 has been resolved, as you can see from the entry in the Status column, whereas issues 2 and 6 are still active. Note that issues 3, 4, and 5 are missing. They didn't magically disappear, and they weren't deleted. Modifications were made to issues 1 and 2 before a new issue was added, and SharePoint tracks each change by assigning a new number in the background, which made 6 the next available ID number when the Schedule additional SharePoint training for end users issue was added.

Figure 8.4. All Issues view of an issues list.




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