Tasks view

The Tasks view displays the following information:

Picture of the Tasks view with two dummy tasks added to it.

By default, the Tasks view is included in the Resources perspective. To add it to the current perspective, click Window > Show View > Other > Basic > Tasks.

By default, the Tasks view is shown when a new compiler error or warning is generated. To remove this feature, click Window > Preferences > Workbench and deselect Show Tasks view when build has errors or warnings.

The following icons are used by the Tasks view:

Icon Description

 Information icon

Information 

Warning icon

Warning

Error icon

Error

 High priority task item

High priority task

 Low priority task icon

Low priority task

Completed task icon

Completed task
The first column indicates whether the line item is a task or a compiler generated error, warning or info.

The second column indicates whether the task is completed. Completed tasks are flagged with a check mark, which you add manually.

The third column indicates whether the task is high, normal, or low priority. 

The Description column contains a description of the line item.  You can edit the description of user-defined tasks by selecting Properties from the context menu.
The Resource and In Folder columns provide the name and location of the resource associated with each line item.
The Location column indicates the line number of the line item within its associated resource.

 

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Tasks view includes the following buttons.

New task

Manually add a "to do" item to the Tasks view.

Delete

Delete the selected line item.

Filter

Filter the view according to the type of item.

 

Menus

Click the icon at the left end of the view's title bar to open a menu of items generic to all views. Click the black upside-down triangle icon to open a menu of items specific to the Tasks view. Right-click inside the view to open a context menu. 

Related tasks
Adding line items in the Tasks view
Associating a task with a resource

Deleting tasks

Filtering the task view